---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 U.S.C. § 3030"
title: "33"
title_heading: "Navigation and Navigable Waters"
number: "3030"
heading: "Temporary appointment or advancement of commissioned officers in time of war or national emergency"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/33/3030"
units:
  - "Chapter 43 — National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Commissioned Officer Corps"
  - "Subchapter II — Appointment and Promotion of Officers"
---

# §3030. Temporary appointment or advancement of commissioned officers in time of war or national emergency

- (a) **In general—** [Officers](/usc/33/3002.md?p=b-3) of the [Administration](/usc/33/3002.md?p=b-7) shall be subject in like manner and to the same extent as personnel of the Navy to all laws authorizing temporary appointment or advancement of commissioned [officers](/usc/33/3002.md?p=b-3) in time of war or national emergency.
- (b) **Limitations—** [Subsection (a)](#a) shall be applied subject to the following limitations:
  - (1) A commissioned [officer](/usc/33/3002.md?p=b-3) in the service of a military department under [section 3061 of this title](/usc/33/3061.md) may, upon the recommendation of the [Secretary](/usc/33/3002.md?p=b-6) of the military department concerned, be temporarily promoted to a higher rank or [grade](/usc/33/3002.md?p=b-2).
  - (2) A commissioned [officer](/usc/33/3002.md?p=b-3) in the service of the [Administration](/usc/33/3002.md?p=b-7) may be temporarily promoted to fill vacancies in ranks and [grades](/usc/33/3002.md?p=b-2) caused by the transfer of commissioned [officers](/usc/33/3002.md?p=b-3) to the service and jurisdiction of a military department under [section 3061 of this title](/usc/33/3061.md).
  - (3) Temporary appointments may be made in all [grades](/usc/33/3002.md?p=b-2) to which original appointments in the [Administration](/usc/33/3002.md?p=b-7) are authorized, except that the number of [officers](/usc/33/3002.md?p=b-3) holding temporary appointments may not exceed the number of [officers](/usc/33/3002.md?p=b-3) transferred to a military department under [section 3061 of this title](/usc/33/3061.md).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 107–372, title II, § 230, Dec. 19, 2002, 116 Stat. 3087.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Provisions similar to this section are contained in section 854a–1 of this title.

### Executive Documents

### Delegation of Functions

Functions of President under subsec. (b) of this section delegated to Secretary of Commerce by section 1(h)–(j) of Ex. Ord. No. 11023, May 28, 1962, 27 F.R. 5131, as amended, set out as a note under section 301 of Title 3, The President.