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title: "10 U.S.C. § 8470"
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# 10 U.S.C. § 8470 - Permanent professors: promotion
## Text
(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.
(Added Pub. L. 110181, div. A, title V, § 508(a)(1)(B), Jan. 28, 2008, 122 Stat. 97, § 6970; renumbered § 8470, Pub. L. 115232, div. A, title VIII, § 807(c)(1), Aug. 13, 2018, 132 Stat. 1836.)
## Notes
Editorial Notes
Amendments2018—Pub. L. 115232 renumbered section 6970 of this title as this section.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective Date of 2018 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 115232 effective Feb. 1, 2019, with provision for the coordination of amendments and special rule for certain redesignations, see section 800 of Pub. L. 115232, set out as a note preceding section 3001 of this title.