---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 8047"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "8047"
heading: "Legislative Assistant to the Commandant"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/8047"
units:
  - "Subtitle C — Navy and Marine Corps"
  - "Part I — Organization"
  - "Chapter 806 — Headquarters, Marine Corps"
---

# §8047. Legislative Assistant to the Commandant


There is in the [Marine Corps](/usc/10/8001.md?p=a-2) a Legislative Assistant to the Commandant.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 107–314, div. A, title V, § 504(d)(3)(A), Dec. 2, 2002, 116 Stat. 2532, § 5047; amended Pub. L. 114–328, div. A, title V, § 502(y), Dec. 23, 2016, 130 Stat. 2104; renumbered § 8047, Pub. L. 115–232, div. A, title VIII, § 807(a)(1), Aug. 13, 2018, 132 Stat. 1834.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2018—Pub. L. 115–232 renumbered section 5047 of this title as this section.

2016—Pub. L. 114–328 struck out second sentence which read as follows: “An officer assigned to that position shall be in a grade above colonel.”

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 2018 Amendment

Amendment by Pub. L. 115–232 effective Feb. 1, 2019, with provision for the coordination of amendments and special rule for certain redesignations, see section 800 of Pub. L. 115–232, set out as a note preceding section 3001 of this title.