Volume 68 · 764
Public Law 83–618
To amend the Army-Navy Medical Services Corps Act of 1947 (61 Stat. 734), as amended, so as to authorize the appointment of a Chief of the Medical Service Corps of the Navy, and for other purposes.
Approved August 23, 1954
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend the Army-Navy Medical Services Corps Act of 1947 (61 Stat. 734), as amended, so as to authorize the appointment of a Chief of the Medical Service Corps of the Navy, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Army-Navy
Navy.
Medical Services Corps Act of 1947, as amended, is further amended by adding to title II the following new section:
“Sec. 208.
(a) There shall be a Chief of the Medical Service Corps,
Chief, Medical Service Corps.
Appointment.
appointed by the. Secretary of the Navy upon recommendation of the Surgeon General of the Navy, for a term of not more than four years, from among officers of the active list of that corps of the permanent rank of lieutenant commander or above, to serve at the pleasure of the Secretary. While so serving the officer shall have the rank of captain in the Navy and shall receive the pay and allowances now or hereafter prescribed by law for that rank and his permanent status as a commissioned officer of the Medical Service Corps shall not be disturbed by reason of such appointment.
“(b) An officer of the Medical Service Corps who is retired for any reason while serving as Chief of the Medical Service Corps, or who having so served for two and one-half years or more is subsequently retired while serving in a lower grade, may, in the discretion of the President, be retired with the rank held by him while serving as Chief of the Medical Service Corps and with retired pay based on the active-duty pay of that rank.”
Approved August 23, 1954.