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10 U.S.C. § 8139

Regular Navy and Regular Marine Corps: officers designated for limited duty

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

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10 U.S.C. § 8139, Regular Navy and Regular Marine Corps: officers designated for limited duty, United States, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/435609
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Original appointments as regular officers of the Navy in a grade below lieutenant commander in the line and in staff corps established by the Secretary of the Navy under section 8090(b) of this title and designated by the Secretary for the purposes of this section may be made from— Original appointments as regular officers of the Marine Corps in a grade below major may be made from— This subsection applies to an officer of the Navy and Marine Corps who— Any officer designated for limited duty, upon his application and upon determination by the Secretary of the Navy that he is qualified, may—

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 The law that originally enacted this section predates the public laws loaded here, so only later amendments are listed.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. 99-433(H.R. 3622)1986-10-01
    Goldwater-Nichols Department of Defense Reorganization Act of 1986
    House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
  • Amended byPub. L. 103-337(S. 2182)1994-10-05
    National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1995
    House: 280–137Senate: 80–18
  • 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