Source: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/10/645?quicktabs_8=4
Timestamp: 2014-07-30 07:56:08
Document Index: 648832646

Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 645', '§ 105', '§ 405', '§ 533', '§ 514', '§ 701', '§ 533', '§ 533']

10 U.S. Code § 645 - Definitions | LII / Legal Information Institute
The term “promotion zone” means a promotion eligibility category consisting of the officers on an active-duty list in the same grade and competitive category—
in the case of officers in grades below colonel, for officers of the Army, Air Force, and Marine Corps, or captain, for officers of the Navy, have neither (I)
been removed from a list of officers recommended for promotion to that grade (other than after having been placed on that list after a selection from below the promotion zone); or
in the case of officers in the grade of colonel or brigadier general, for officers of the Army, Air Force, and Marine Corps, or captain or rear admiral (lower half), for officers of the Navy, have neither (I)
not been recommended for promotion to the next higher grade when considered in the promotion zone, nor (II)
been removed from a list of officers recommended for promotion to that grade (other than after having been placed on that list after a selection from below the promotion zone); and
The term “officers above the promotion zone” means a group of officers on an active-duty list in the same grade and competitive category who—
The term “officers below the promotion zone” means a group of officers on the active-duty list in the same grade and competitive category who—
(Added Pub. L. 96–513, title I, § 105,Dec. 12, 1980, 94 Stat. 2867; amended Pub. L. 97–86, title IV, § 405(b)(1),Dec. 1, 1981, 95 Stat. 1105; Pub. L. 98–525, title V, § 533(a),Oct. 19, 1984, 98 Stat. 2528; Pub. L. 99–145, title V, § 514(b)(1),Nov. 8, 1985, 99 Stat. 628; Pub. L. 102–25, title VII, § 701(i)(1),Apr. 6, 1991, 105 Stat. 115.)
1991—Pars. (1) to (3). Pub. L. 102–25inserted “The term” after par. designations and lowercased initial letter of quoted phrases.
1985—Par. (1)(A)(ii). Pub. L. 99–145substituted “rear admiral (lower half)” for “commodore”.
1984—Par. (1)(A)(i)(II), (ii)(II). Pub. L. 98–525, § 533(a)(1), inserted “(other than after having been placed on that list after a selection from below the promotion zone)”.
Par. (1)(B). Pub. L. 98–525, § 533(a)(2), inserted “in the promotion zone” after “the junior officer” and struck out “in the promotion zone” after “higher grade”.
1981—Par. (1)(A)(ii). Pub. L. 97–86substituted “commodore” for “commodore admiral”.