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 105 STAT. 1502 PUBLIC LAW 102-190—DEC. 5, 1991 "33A. Appointment, Promotion, and Involuntary Separation and Retirement for Members on the Warrant Officer Active-Duty List 571". SEC. 1113. TEMPORARY APPOINTMENTS. (a) REPEAL OF PERMANENT AUTHORITY FOR TEMPORARY PRO- MOTIONS. —Section 602 of title 10, United States Code, is repealed. 0)) AUTHORITY FOR TEMPORARY APPOINTMENTS DURING WAR OR NATIONAL EMERGENCY.— Section 603(a) of such title is amended— (1) by striking out "commissioned"; (2) by striking out "in warrant officer grades or"; and (3) by striking out the period at the end of the second sentence and inserting in lieu thereof ", except that an appointment in the grade warrant officer, W-1, shall be made by warrant by the Secretary concerned.". (c) NAVY AND MARINE CORPS WARRANT OFFICER APPOINTMENTS. — Section 5596 of such title is amended— (1) in subsection (a), by striking out "appointments—" and all that follows through "of officers designated" and inserting in lieu thereof "appointments of officers designated"; and (2) in subsection (d), by striking out "subsection (a)(2)" and inserting in lieu thereof "subsection (a)". (d) TECHNICAL AND CLERICAL AMENDMENTS. — (I)(A) The heading of section 603 of such title is amended to read as follows: "§ 603. Appointments in time of war or national emergency". (B) The table of sections at the beginning of chapter 35 of such title is amended by striking out the items relating to sections 602 and 603 and inserting in lieu thereof the following: "603. Appointments in time of war or national emergency.". (2)(A) The heading of section 5596 of such title is amended by striking out "warrant officers and". (B) The item relating to section 5596 in the table of sections at the beginning of chapter 539 of such title is amended by striking out "warrant officers and". SEC. 1114. RANK OF WARRANT OFFICERS. (a) RANK WITHIN GRADE. —Chapter 43 of title 10, United States Code, is amended by inserting after section 741 the following new section: "§ 742. Rank: warrant officers "(a) Among warrant officer grades, warrant officer grades of a higher numerical designation are senior to warrant officer grades of a lower numerical designation. "0)) Rank among warrant officers of the same grade, and date of rank of warrant officers, is determined in the same manner as prescribed in section 741 of this title for officers in grades above warrant officer grades.". (b) CONFORMING REPEAL. —Section 745 of such title is repealed. (c) CLERICAL AMENDMENTS.— The table of sections at the beginning of chapter 43 of such title is amended— (1) by inserting after the item relating to section 741 the following new item: "742. Rank: warrant officers."; and (2) by striking out the item relating to section 745.

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