# § 8132. Regular Navy: transfers, line and staff corps
**(a)** A regular officer of the Navy in a staff corps in a grade not above lieutenant commander may be appointed in the line of the Navy to the same grade.
**(b)** A regular officer in the line of the Navy in a grade not above lieutenant commander may be appointed to the same grade in a staff corps under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Defense.
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**Source Credit**: (Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 324, § 5582; Pub. L. 96–513, title III, § 373(d), Dec. 12, 1980, 94 Stat. 2903; renumbered § 8132, Pub. L. 115–232, div. A, title VIII, § 807(b)(4), Aug. 13, 2018, 132 Stat. 1834.)
| Revised section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 5582(a) | 34 U.S.C. 14 (less statement of appointing authority). | July 22, 1935, ch. 402, § 7 (less statement of appointing authority), 49 Stat. 490. |
| 5582(b) | 34 U.S.C. 13 (less statement of appointing authority). | July 22, 1935, ch. 402, § 6 (less statement of appointing authority), 49 Stat. 490. |
The words “active list” are inserted so that this section will apply only to officers of the Regular Navy holding permanent appointments in grades above commissioned warrant officer, as this was the intent of the source statute. The words “same grade” are substituted for the words “corresponding rank and grade” in subsection (a) and for the words “corresponding grade” in subsection (b), since, under § 405 of the Officer Personnel Act of 1947 (), the grades in the staff corps are the same as those in the line. The words “transfer and” and “transferred and” are omitted as surplusage.
In subsection (a) the words “and precedence in the line” are omitted as surplusage.
In subsection (b) reference to the Construction Corps is omitted because that corps was abolished by the , .
The word “male” is inserted in both subsections to limit their application to men. Authority to appoint women is covered in .
## Editorial Notes
### Amendments
2018— renumbered as this section.
1980—Subsec. (a). substituted “A regular officer” for “Any male officer on the active list” and “in the line” for “to the active list in the line” and deleted provision assigning an officer so appointed the lineal position he would have held had he originally been appointed in and had he remained in the line and provision that such an officer was to be considered an additional number in each grade in which he served.
Subsec. (b). substituted “A regular officer” for “Any male officer on the active list” and “the same grade in a staff corps under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Defense” for “the active list of the Navy in the Supply Corps or the Civil Engineer Corps, in the same grade, without regard to his age.”
## 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 .
### Effective Date of 1980 Amendment
Amendment by effective , but the authority to prescribe regulations under the amendment by effective on , see , set out as a note under .