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Limited duty.

34 USC 5a(k). Temporary pointments.

34 USC 4, 5.

34 USC 626-1(a). Marine eorps. Commissioned officers.

PUBLIC LAW 349-MAY 5, 1954

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considered for all purposes as the authorized number of officers in each of such various grades and shall not be varied between such computations: Provided, That to determine the authorized number of line officers designated for limited duty in each of the various grades above lieutenant, the Secretary of the Navy, as of the date of approval of this Act and thereafter at such times that the needs of the service require but not less than once annually, shall compute the maximum number of such officers which may serve in each of such various grades, as provided in subsection (a) of this section, and shall determine the number of such officers in each of such various grades, not to exceed such maximum number, required to meet the needs of the service during the ensuing year, and the resulting number in each of such various grades, as so determined, shall be held and considered for all purposes as the authorized number of such officers in each of such various grades, and shall not be varied between such determinations:". SEC. 204. Subsection 303(k) of the Officer Personnel Act of 1947 is amended to read as follows: " (k) Upon determination of the authorized number of officers in each of the various grades above lieutenant, with respect to officers serving on active duty as provided in this section, and with respect to officers holding permanent appointments on the active list of the Eegular Navy, as provided in section 103 of title I and section 203 of title II of this Act, computations shall be made by the Secretary of the Navy to determine the authorized number of officers which may serve under temporary appointment in the line in each of the various grades above lieutenant and in each grade in a staff corps where computations are prescribed to determine the authorized number. At the same time, the Secretary of the Navy shall determine within the combined grades of lieutenant, lieutenant (junior grade), and ensign, the number of officers serving under temporary appointments required in each of those grades to meet the needs of the service. Should the Secretary of the Navy determine, at the time of making the computations prescribed by subsections (g) and (h) of this section, that in any grade above lieutenant a lesser number of officers than the computed number of officers for that grade is required to meet the needs of the service, the lesser number shall be held and considered to be the authorized number for that grade and the reduction may be applied as an increase in the authorized number of such officers m any lower grade or grades." SEC. 205. Subsection 314(a) of the Officer Personnel Act of 1947 is amended to read as follows: "SEC. 314. (a) Commissioned officers of the Marine Corps shall be authorized in number in the same proportion to authorized enlisted strength and shall be distributed in grades, promoted, retired, and discharged in like manner and with the same relative conditions in all respects as provided for commissioned officers of the line of the Navy, by existing law, or by laws hereafter enacted, except as may be necessary to adapt the said provisions to the Marine Corps, or as herein otherwise provided. Of the total number of officers not restricted in the performance of duty serving on active duty at any one time, exclusive of officers carried by law as additional numbers in grade, the number of officers who may serve in each of the grades above captain shall, except as otherwise provided by subsection 303(k) of this Act, be no greater than a number appropriate to the total number as set forth in the following table:

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