§6970. Permanent professors: promotion

(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. 110–181, div. A, title V, §508(a)(1)(B), Jan. 28, 2008, 122 Stat. 97 .)

Prior Provisions

A prior section 6970 was renumbered section 6970a of this title.

Another prior section 6970, acts Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 435 ; Nov. 2, 1966, Pub. L. 89–718, §37, 80 Stat. 1120 , related to detailing and duties of storekeeper at the Naval Academy, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 104–201, div. A, title III, §370(c), (e), Sept. 23, 1996, 110 Stat. 2499 , effective Oct. 1, 1996.