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10 USC § 8470 - Permanent professors: promotion 

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identifier: "/us/usc/t10/s8470"
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title: "10 USC § 8470 - Permanent professors: promotion"
title_number: 10
title_name: "ARMED FORCES"
section_number: "8470"
section_name: "Permanent professors: promotion"
chapter_number: 853
chapter_name: "UNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY"
part_number: "III"
part_name: "EDUCATION AND TRAINING"
positive_law: true
currency: "119-73"
last_updated: "2026-03-26"
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generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(Added Pub. L. 110–181, div. A, title V, § 508(a)(1)(B), Jan. 28, 2008, 122 Stat. 97, § 6970; renumbered § 8470, Pub. L. 115–232, div. A, title VIII, § 807(c)(1), Aug. 13, 2018, 132 Stat. 1836.)"
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# § 8470. Permanent professors: promotion

**(a)** **Promotion.—** An officer serving as a permanent professor may be recommended for promotion to the grade of captain or colonel, as the case may be, under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Navy. The regulations shall include a competitive selection board process to identify those permanent professors best qualified for promotion. An officer so recommended shall be promoted by appointment to the higher grade by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate.

**(b)** **Effective Date of Promotion.—** If made, the promotion of an officer under subsection (a) shall be effective not earlier than three years after the selection of the officer as a permanent professor as described in that subsection.

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**Source Credit**: (Added Pub. L. 110–181, div. A, title V, § 508(a)(1)(B), Jan. 28, 2008, 122 Stat. 97, § 6970; renumbered § 8470, Pub. L. 115–232, div. A, title VIII, § 807(c)(1), Aug. 13, 2018, 132 Stat. 1836.)

## Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2018— renumbered  as this section.

## 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 .