---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 583"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "583"
heading: "Definitions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/583"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part II — Personnel"
  - "Chapter 33A — Appointment, Promotion, and Involuntary Separation and Retirement for Members on the Warrant Officer Active-Duty List"
---

# §583. Definitions


In this chapter:

- (1) The term “promotion zone” means a promotion eligibility category consisting of [officers](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-1) on a [warrant officer](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-3) [active-duty list](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-13) in the same [grade](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-7) (or the same [grade](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-7) and competitive category) who—
  - (A) in the case of [grades](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-7) below chief [warrant officer](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-3), W–5, have neither (i) failed of selection for promotion to the next higher [grade](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-7), nor (ii) been removed from a list of [warrant officers](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-3) recommended for promotion to that [grade](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-7) (other than after having been placed on that list after a selection from below the [promotion zone](#1)); and
  - (B) are senior to the [warrant officer](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-3) designated by the [Secretary concerned](/usc/10/2801.md?p=c-5) to be the junior [warrant officer](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-3) in the [promotion zone](#1) eligible for promotion to the next higher [grade](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-7).
- (2) The term “warrant officers above the promotion zone” means a group of [officers](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-1) on a [warrant officer](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-3) [active-duty list](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-13) in the same [grade](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-7) (or the same [grade](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-7) and competitive category) who—
  - (A) are eligible for consideration for promotion to the next higher [grade](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-7);
  - (B) are in the same [grade](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-7) as [warrant officers](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-3) in the [promotion zone](#1); and
  - (C) are senior to the senior [warrant officer](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-3) in the [promotion zone](#1).
- (3) The term “warrant officers below the promotion zone” means a group of [officers](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-1) on a [warrant officer](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-3) [active-duty list](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-13) in the same [grade](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-7) (or the same [grade](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-7) and competitive category) who—
  - (A) are eligible for consideration for promotion to the next higher [grade](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-7);
  - (B) are in the same [grade](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-7) as [warrant officers](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-3) in the [promotion zone](#1); and
  - (C) are junior to the junior [warrant officer](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-3) in the [promotion zone](#1).
- (4) The [active-duty list](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-13) referred to in [section 573(b) of this title](/usc/10/573.md?p=b) [includes](/usc/10/101.md?p=g-4) the active-duty promotion list established by section 41a[^1] of title 14.

## Footnotes

[^1]: See References in Text note below.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 102–190, div. A, title XI, § 1112(a), Dec. 5, 1991, 105 Stat. 1501; amended Pub. L. 103–337, div. A, title V, § 541(f)(7), Oct. 5, 1994, 108 Stat. 2767.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

Section 41a of title 14, referred to in par. (4), was redesignated section 2102 of title 14 by Pub. L. 115–282, title I, § 112(b), Dec. 4, 2018, 132 Stat. 4216, and references to section 41a of title 14 deemed to refer to such redesignated section, see section 123(b)(1) of Pub. L. 115–282, set out as a References to Sections of Title 14 as Redesignated by Pub. L. 115–282 note preceding section 101 of Title 14, Coast Guard.

### Amendments

1994—Par. (4). Pub. L. 103–337 added par. (4).

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 1994 Amendment

Amendment by Pub. L. 103–337 effective on the first day of the fourth month beginning after Oct. 5, 1994, see section 541(h) of Pub. L. 103–337, set out as a note under section 571 of this title.

### Effective Date

Section effective Feb. 1, 1992, see section 1132 of Pub. L. 102–190, set out as an Effective Date of 1991 Amendment note under section 521 of this title.