---
kind: "section"
citation: "14 U.S.C. § 2112"
title: "14"
title_heading: "Coast Guard"
number: "2112"
heading: "Promotion year; defined"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/14/2112"
units:
  - "Subtitle II — Personnel"
  - "Chapter 21 — Personnel; Officers"
  - "Subchapter I — Appointment and Promotion"
---

# §2112. Promotion year; defined


For the purposes of this chapter, “promotion year” means the period which commences on July 1 of each year and ends on June 30 of the following year.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 94–546, § 1(17), Oct. 18, 1976, 90 Stat. 2520, § 256a; renumbered § 2112, Pub. L. 115–282, title I, § 112(b), Dec. 4, 2018, 132 Stat. 4216.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2018—Pub. L. 115–282 renumbered section 256a of this title as this section.