---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 8164"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "8164"
heading: "Marine Corps officers: limitation on power to command"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/8164"
units:
  - "Subtitle C — Navy and Marine Corps"
  - "Part II — Personnel"
  - "Chapter 821 — Officers in Command"
---

# §8164. Marine Corps officers: limitation on power to command


[Officers](/usc/10/8001.md?p=a-5) of the [Marine Corps](/usc/10/8001.md?p=a-2) may not command vessels or naval shipyards.


## Source credit

(Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 371, § 5944; renumbered § 8164, Pub. L. 115–232, div. A, title VIII, § 807(b)(5), Aug. 13, 2018, 132 Stat. 1834.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 5944 | 34 U.S.C. 713. | R.S. 1617. |

The words “of the United States” are omitted as surplusage. The word “command” is substituted for the words “exercise command over any”.

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2018—Pub. L. 115–232 renumbered section 5944 of this title as this section.

### 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.