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[CITE: 33USC856]

 
                TITLE 33--NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS
 
                    CHAPTER 17--NATIONAL OCEAN SURVEY
 
                    SUBCHAPTER I--GENERAL PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 856. Relative rank of officers when serving with Army, 
        Navy, or Air Force
        
    When serving with the Army, Navy, or Air Force, commissioned 
officers of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shall 
rank with and after officers of corresponding grade in the Army, Navy, 
or Air Force of the same length of service in grade.
    And nothing in this Act shall be construed to affect or alter their 
rates of pay and allowances when not assigned to military duty as 
hereinbefore mentioned.

(May 22, 1917, ch. 20, Sec. 16, 40 Stat. 88; June 21, 1955, ch. 172, 
Sec. 2(b), 69 Stat. 169; 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.)

                       References in Text

    This Act, referred to in text, means act May 22, 1917, ch. 20, 40 
Stat. 84, as amended, which, insofar as it was classified to the Code, 
enacted sections 854, 855, 856, 857 and 858 of this title, and sections 
1, 152, 212 to 216, 280, 284, 297, 322, 323, 424, 425, 640 and 864 of 
former Title 34, Navy, and amended section 96 of former Title 18, 
Criminal Code and Criminal Procedure. For complete classification of 
this Act to the Code, see Tables.

                          Codification

    Section is part of section 16 of act May 22, 1917. Section 16 is 
also classified to sections 854, 855, 857, and 858 of this title.


                               Amendments

    1955--Act June 21, 1955, provided that officers of the Coast and 
Geodetic Survey shall rank with and after officers of the corresponding 
grade of the same length of service in grade.

                          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.


                   Termination of War and Emergencies

    Joint Res. July 25, 1947, ch. 327, Sec. 3, 61 Stat. 451, provided 
that in the interpretation of sections 855, 856, 857, and 858 of this 
title, the date July 25, 1947, shall be deemed to be the date of 
termination of any state of war theretofore declared by the Congress and 
of the national emergencies proclaimed by the President on Sept. 8, 
1939, and May 27, 1941.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 854a-1 of this title.
