yourstate.us
Home / United States / 10 U.S.C.
10 U.S.C. § 8101

Prescribed number; vacancies

United States · Title 10 — ARMED FORCES · Status: effective

Get this as JSONEmbed this
Cite this
Citation
10 U.S.C. § 8101, Prescribed number; vacancies, United States, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/435594
Permanent ID
ys:prov:435594@1
SHA-256
2b4a9f52610c962f7a9d01beebf0f3109674ed61d8f451e911a932b53a495d83

The hash is SHA-256 of this version's text, with every run of whitespace collapsed to a single space and the ends trimmed. The ID always leads back here, and checking it says whether the text you cited is still the current version.

Full text

In this chapter, the term “prescribed number” or “number . . . prescribed” as applied to a grade, means the number of officers of a described corps, designation, or other category that shall be maintained in the grade concerned. Except as otherwise specifically provided, the actual number of officers in a grade may not exceed the prescribed number. Vacancies occur whenever, and to the extent that, the actual number falls below the prescribed number.

Legislative history

The public laws that enacted or amended this section. Tallies are for the whole bill as it passed each chamber — often an omnibus covering far more than this provision — not a vote on this section alone. The law that originally enacted this section predates the public laws loaded here, so only later amendments are listed.

  • Amended byPub. L. 96-513(S. 1918)1980-12-12
    An act to amend title 10, United States Code, to revise and standardize the provisions of law relating to appointment, promotion, separation, and mandatory retirement of regular commissioned officers of the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps, to establish the permanent grade of commodore admiral in the Navy, to equalize the treatment of female commissioned officers with that of male commissioned officers, and for other purposes.
    House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
  • Amended byPub. L. 101-189(H.R. 2461)1989-11-29
    National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991
    House: no recorded tallySenate: 91–8
  • Amended byPub. L. 115-232(H.R. 5515)2018-08-13
    John S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019
    House: 359–54Senate: 87–10