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Title 37 — Pay and Allowances of the Uniformed Services

Chapter 17 — Miscellaneous Rights and Benefits

§ 901. Wartime pay of officer of armed force exercising command higher than his grade

Statutory text

In time of war, an officer of an armed force who is serving with troops operating against an enemy and who exercises, under assignment in orders issued by competent authority, a command above that pertaining to his grade, is entitled to the pay and allowances (not above that of pay grade O–7) appropriate to the command so exercised.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Pub. L. 87–649 · 76 Stat. 451

    Enacted · 37 U.S.C. § 901

    (Pub. L. 87–649, Sept. 7, 1962, 76 Stat. 486.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 87–649, Sept. 7, 1962, 76 Stat. 486.)

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Notes

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Historical and Revision Notes
Revised sectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large)
90137:235a.Apr. 26, 1898, ch. 191, § 7 (less last proviso), 30 Stat. 365.

Applicability of the source law to the Air Force is based on Transfer Order No. 25(zzz), of the Secretary of Defense, dated . Its applicability, other than to the Army and the Air Force, is based upon an opinion of the Judge Advocate General of the Navy, JAG 135: DDC; dmt.; 4229, dated . The words “(but not above that of pay grade O–7)” are substituted for section 235a (proviso) of existing title 37.

Credits

(Pub. L. 87–649, , 76 Stat. 486.)

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