---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 8082a"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "8082a"
heading: "Deputy Chief of Chaplains"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/8082a"
units:
  - "Subtitle C — Navy and Marine Corps"
  - "Part I — Organization"
  - "Chapter 809 — Bureaus; Office of the Judge Advocate General"
---

# §8082a. Deputy Chief of Chaplains


The [Secretary](/usc/10/8720.md?p=4) of the [Navy](/usc/10/8001.md?p=a-1) may detail as the Deputy Chief of Chaplains an [officer](/usc/10/8001.md?p=a-5) of the Chaplain Corps in the [grade](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-7) of commander or above who is on [active duty](/usc/10/101.md?p=d-1) and who has served on [active duty](/usc/10/101.md?p=d-1) in the Chaplain Corps for at least eight years.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 96–343, § 11(a), Sept. 8, 1980, 94 Stat. 1130, § 5142a; amended Pub. L. 105–85, div. A, title V, § 504(c)(2), Nov. 18, 1997, 111 Stat. 1725; renumbered § 8082a, Pub. L. 115–232, div. A, title VIII, § 807(a)(2), Aug. 13, 2018, 132 Stat. 1834.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2018—Pub. L. 115–232 renumbered section 5142a of this title as this section.

1997—Pub. L. 105–85 struck out “, who is not on the retired list,” after “who is on active duty”.

### 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.