10 USC 8036: Surgeon General: appointment; grade
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10 USC 8036: Surgeon General: appointment; grade Text contains those laws in effect on January 8, 2008
From Title 10-ARMED FORCESSubtitle D-Air ForcePART I-ORGANIZATIONCHAPTER 805-THE AIR STAFF

§8036. Surgeon General: appointment; grade

There is a Surgeon General of the Air Force who is appointed by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate from officers of the Air Force who are in the Air Force medical department. The Surgeon General, while so serving, has the grade of lieutenant general.

(Added Pub. L. 89–288, §5(a), Oct. 22, 1965, 79 Stat. 1050 ; amended Pub. L. 99–433, title V, §522(g)(2), Oct. 1, 1986, 100 Stat. 1063 ; Pub. L. 104–106, div. A, title V, §506(c), Feb. 10, 1996, 110 Stat. 296 .)

Amendments

1996-Pub. L. 104–106 substituted "in the Air Force medical department" for "designated as medical officers under section 8067(a) of this title".

1986-Pub. L. 99–433 substituted a semicolon for the comma in section catchline.