10 USC 5022: Office of Naval Research: duties

10 USC 5022: Office of Naval Research: duties Text contains those laws in effect on January 23, 2000

From Title 10-ARMED FORCESSubtitle C-Navy and Marine CorpsPART I-ORGANIZATIONCHAPTER 503-DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY

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§5022. Office of Naval Research: duties

(a)(1) There is in the Office of the Secretary of the Navy an Office of Naval Research.

(2) Unless appointed to higher grade under another provision of law, an officer, while serving in the Office of Naval Research as Chief of Naval Research, has the rank of rear admiral (upper half).

(b) The Office of Naval Research shall perform such duties as the Secretary of the Navy prescribes relating to-

(1) the encouragement, promotion, planning, initiation, and coordination of naval research;

(2) the conduct of naval research in augmentation of and in conjunction with the research and development conducted by the bureaus and other agencies and offices of the Department of the Navy; and

(3) the supervision, administration, and control of activities within or for the Department relating to patents, inventions, trademarks, copyrights, and royalty payments, and matters connected therewith.

(c) Sufficient information relative to estimates of appropriations for research by the several bureaus and offices shall be furnished to the Office of Naval Research to assist it in coordinating naval research and carrying out its other duties.

(d) The Office of Naval Research shall perform its duties under the authority of the Secretary, and its orders are considered as coming from the Secretary.

(Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 291 , §5151; renumbered §5022, Pub. L. 99–433, title V, §511(d), Oct. 1, 1986, 100 Stat. 1048 ; amended Pub. L. 101–510, div. A, title IX, §910(b)(1), Nov. 5, 1990, 104 Stat. 1625 ; Pub. L. 104–201, div. A, title V, §501(a), Sept. 23, 1996, 110 Stat. 2510 .)

Historical and Revision Notes
Revised section	Source (U.S. Code)	Source (Statutes at Large)
5151(a)	5 U.S.C. 475 (20th through 111th words).	Aug. 1, 1946, ch. 727, §1 (22d through 114th words), 60 Stat. 779 .
5151(b)	5 U.S.C. 475d(a) (2d sentence).	Aug. 1, 1946, ch. 727, §5(a) (2d sentence), 60 Stat. 780 .
5151(c)	5 U.S.C. 475 (2d sentence).	Aug. 1, 1946, ch. 727, §1 (2d sentence), 60 Stat. 779 .

In subsection (c) the words "shall have full force and effect as such" are omitted as surplusage.

Amendments

1996-Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 104–201 designated existing provisions as par. (1) and added par. (2).

1990-Pub. L. 101–510 added subsec. (a) and redesignated former subsecs. (a) to (c) as (b) to (d), respectively.

Effective Date of 1996 Amendment

Section 501(b) of Pub. L. 104–201 provided that: "Paragraph (2) of section 5022(a) of title 10, United States Code, as added by subsection (a), shall take effect upon the occurrence of the first vacancy in the position of Chief of Naval Research after the date of the enactment of this Act [Sept. 23, 1996]."

Section Referred to in Other Sections

This section is referred to in section 5023 of this title.