---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 9225"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "9225"
heading: "Rank: warrant officers"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/9225"
units:
  - "Subtitle D — Air Force and Space Force"
  - "Part II — Personnel"
  - "Chapter 925 — Rank and Command"
---

# §9225. Rank: warrant officers


[Warrant officers](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-3) [rank](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-8) next below second lieutenants and [rank](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-8) among themselves within each [warrant officer](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-3) [grade](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-7) under regulations to be prescribed by the [Secretary](/usc/10/9511.md?p=10) of the Air Force.


## Source credit

(Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 530, § 8575; renumbered § 9225, Pub. L. 115–232, div. A, title VIII, § 806(b)(7), Aug. 13, 2018, 132 Stat. 1832.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 8575 | 10:593 (less 1st sentence). | Aug. 21, 1941, ch. 384, § 4 (less 1st sentence), 55 Stat. 653; May 29, 1954, ch. 249, § 19(e), 68 Stat. 167. |

10:593 (2d sentence) is omitted as executed. The words “within each warrant officer grade” are inserted for clarity, since section 745 of this title covers rank between warrant officers in different warrant officer grades. The words “they shall take precedence” are omitted as surplusage.

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2018—Pub. L. 115–232 renumbered section 8575 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.