10 USC § 7434 - Command and supervision

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identifier: "/us/usc/t10/s7434"
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title: "10 USC § 7434 - Command and supervision"
title_number: 10
title_name: "ARMED FORCES"
section_number: "7434"
section_name: "Command and supervision"
chapter_number: 753
chapter_name: "UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY"
part_number: "III"
part_name: "TRAINING"
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currency: "119-73"
last_updated: "2026-03-26"
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generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 239, § 4334; Pub. L. 85–600, § 1(10), Aug. 6, 1958, 72 Stat. 523; Pub. L. 95–551, § 2, Oct. 30, 1978, 92 Stat. 2069; renumbered § 7434, Pub. L. 115–232, div. A, title VIII, § 808(c)(1), Aug. 13, 2018, 132 Stat. 1839.)"
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# § 7434. Command and supervision

**(a)** The supervision and charge of the Academy is in the Department of the Army, under officers of the Army detailed to that duty by the Secretary of the Army.

**(b)** The immediate government of the Academy is under the Superintendent, who is also the commanding officer of the Academy and of the military post at West Point.

**(c)** The Commandant of Cadets is the immediate commander of the Corps of Cadets, and is in charge of the instruction of the Corps in tactics.

**(d)** The permanent professors and the director of admissions exercise command only in the academic department of the Academy.

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**Source Credit**: (Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 239, § 4334; Pub. L. 85–600, § 1(10), Aug. 6, 1958, 72 Stat. 523; Pub. L. 95–551, § 2, Oct. 30, 1978, 92 Stat. 2069; renumbered § 7434, Pub. L. 115–232, div. A, title VIII, § 808(c)(1), Aug. 13, 2018, 132 Stat. 1839.)

| Revised section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 4334(a) | 10:1041. | R.S. 1331. |
| 4334(b) | 10:1042. | R.S. 1311. |
| 4334(c) | 10:1065. | R.S. 1312. |
| 4334(d) | 10:1079. | June 28, 1902, ch. 1300 (1st proviso under “Permanent Establishment”), 32 Stat. 409. |

In subsection (a), the word “detailed” is substituted for the word “assign” to conform to .

In subsection (b), the words “and, in his absence, the next in rank” are omitted as surplusage.

In subsection (c), the words “Corps of Cadets” are substituted for the words “battalion of cadets” to conform to  and present terminology. The words “of artillery, cavalry, and infantry” are omitted as surplusage.

In subsection (d), reference to assimilated rank is omitted as superseded by . The words “and the associate professor” are omitted as obsolete.

## Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 7434, acts , ; , , ; , , ; , , ; , , ; , , , directed Secretary to submit annual report to Congress on production from naval petroleum reserves during the preceding year, prior to repeal by , , . , , , which directed the general amendment of this section, could not be executed because of the prior repeal by .

### Amendments

2018— renumbered  as this section.

1978—Subsec. (d).  substituted “director of admissions” for “registrar”.

1958—Subsec. (d).  inserted “and the registrar” after “professors”.

## Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 2018 Amendment

Amendment by  effective , with provision for the coordination of amendments and special rule for certain redesignations, see , set out as a note preceding .