10 U.S.C. § 8375 — Navy and Marine Corps; warrant officers, W–1: limitation on dismissal
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A Navy or Marine Corps warrant officer, W-1, may be dismissed only during wartime and by Presidential order. The President may instead remove the officer from the rolls for extended unauthorized absence or a final penitentiary or correctional-institution sentence.
(a) A Navy or Marine Corps officer* holding warrant-officer grade* W-1 may be dismissed only in wartime and by order of the President. (b) The President may remove from the Navy or Marine Corps rolls a W-1 officer who: (1) has been absent without authority for at least three months; or (2) after being found guilty by a court other than a court-martial or other military court, is sentenced to confinement in a Federal or State penitentiary or correctional institution, when the sentence is final.
No officer* who holds the grade* of warrant officer*, W–1, may be dismissed from the Navy or the Marine Corps except in time of war, by order of the President.
The President may drop from the rolls of the Navy or the Marine Corps any officer who holds the grade of warrant officer, W–1, who—
has been absent without authority for at least three months; or
is sentenced to confinement in a Federal or State penitentiary or correctional institution after having been found guilty of an offense by a court other than a court-martial or other military court, and whose sentence has become final.
Source credit: (Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 416, § 6408; renumbered § 8375, Pub. L. 115–232, div. A, title VIII, § 807(b)(16), Aug. 13, 2018, 132 Stat. 1836.)
- 1956Enacted · Act of Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041
- 2018Amended · Pub. L. 115-232 · 132 Stat. 1836
A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by ch. 1041 on 1956-08-10.
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