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[CITE: 33USC854a-2]

 
                TITLE 33--NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS
 
                    CHAPTER 17--NATIONAL OCEAN SURVEY
 
                    SUBCHAPTER I--GENERAL PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 854a-2. Pay and allowances; date of acceptance of promotion

    Any commissioned officer of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric 
Administration promoted to a higher grade at any time after December 7, 
1941, shall be deemed for all purposes to have accepted his promotion to 
higher grade upon the date such promotion is made by the President 
unless he shall expressly decline such promotion, and shall receive the 
pay and allowances of the higher grade from such date unless he is 
entitled under some other provision of law to receive the pay and 
allowances of the higher grade from an earlier date. No such officer who 
shall have subscribed to the oath of office required by section 3331 of 
title 5, shall be required to renew such oath or to take a new oath upon 
his promotion to a higher grade, if his service after the taking of such 
an oath shall have been continuous.

(Dec. 3, 1942, ch. 670, Sec. 3, 56 Stat. 1039; 1965 Reorg. Plan No. 2, 
eff. July 13, 1965, 30 F.R. 8819, 79 Stat. 1318; 1970 Reorg. Plan No. 4, 
eff. Oct. 3, 1970, 35 F.R. 15627, 84 Stat. 2090.)

                          Codification

    ``Section 3331 of title 5'' substituted in text for ``section 1757, 
Revised Statutes'' on authority of Pub. L. 89-554, Sec. 7(b), Sept. 6, 
1966, 80 Stat. 631, the first section of which enacted Title 5, 
Government Organization and Employees. Section 1757 of the Revised 
Statutes had been classified to section 16 of former Title 5, Executive 
Departments and Government Officers and Employees.

                          Transfer of Functions

    Coast and Geodetic Survey consolidated with Weather Bureau to form a 
new agency in Department of Commerce to be known as Environmental 
Science Services Administration, and commissioned officers of Survey 
transferred to ESSA, by Reorg. Plan No. 2 of 1965, eff. July 13, 1965, 
30 F.R. 8819, 79 Stat. 1318, set out as a note under section 851 of this 
title. The Reorg. Plan also transferred to Secretary of Commerce all 
functions of Coast and Geodetic Survey and Director of Survey. 
Subsequently, Environmental Science Services Administration abolished, 
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration established, and 
Commissioned Officer Corps of ESSA redesignated Commissioned Officer 
Corps of NOAA by Reorg. Plan No. 4 of 1970, eff. Oct. 3, 1970, 35 F.R. 
15627, 84 Stat. 2090, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government 
Organization and Employees. For further details, see note set out under 
section 851 of this title.
