10 USC § 8047 - Legislative Assistant to the Commandant

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identifier: "/us/usc/t10/s8047"
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title: "10 USC § 8047 - Legislative Assistant to the Commandant"
title_number: 10
title_name: "ARMED FORCES"
section_number: "8047"
section_name: "Legislative Assistant to the Commandant"
chapter_number: 806
chapter_name: "HEADQUARTERS, MARINE CORPS"
part_number: "I"
part_name: "ORGANIZATION"
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currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
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generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(Added Pub. L. 107–314, div. A, title V, § 504(d)(3)(A), Dec. 2, 2002, 116 Stat. 2532, § 5047; amended Pub. L. 114–328, div. A, title V, § 502(y), Dec. 23, 2016, 130 Stat. 2104; renumbered § 8047, Pub. L. 115–232, div. A, title VIII, § 807(a)(1), Aug. 13, 2018, 132 Stat. 1834.)"
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# § 8047. Legislative Assistant to the Commandant

There is in the Marine Corps a Legislative Assistant to the Commandant.

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**Source Credit**: (Added Pub. L. 107–314, div. A, title V, § 504(d)(3)(A), Dec. 2, 2002, 116 Stat. 2532, § 5047; amended Pub. L. 114–328, div. A, title V, § 502(y), Dec. 23, 2016, 130 Stat. 2104; renumbered § 8047, Pub. L. 115–232, div. A, title VIII, § 807(a)(1), Aug. 13, 2018, 132 Stat. 1834.)

## Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2018— renumbered  as this section.

2016— struck out second sentence which read as follows: “An officer assigned to that position shall be in a grade above colonel.”

## 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 .