---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 U.S.C. § 3031"
title: "33"
title_heading: "Navigation and Navigable Waters"
number: "3031"
heading: "Pay and allowances; date of acceptance of promotion"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/33/3031"
units:
  - "Chapter 43 — National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Commissioned Officer Corps"
  - "Subchapter II — Appointment and Promotion of Officers"
---

# §3031. Pay and allowances; date of acceptance of promotion

- (a) **Acceptance and date of promotion—** An [officer](/usc/33/3002.md?p=b-3) of the commissioned corps who is promoted to a higher [grade](/usc/33/3002.md?p=b-2)—
  - (1) is deemed for all purposes to have accepted the promotion upon the date the promotion is made by the President, unless the [officer](/usc/33/3002.md?p=b-3) expressly declines the promotion; and
  - (2) shall receive the pay and allowances of the higher [grade](/usc/33/3002.md?p=b-2) from that date unless the [officer](/usc/33/3002.md?p=b-3) is entitled under another provision of law to receive the pay and allowances of the higher [grade](/usc/33/3002.md?p=b-2) from an earlier date.
- (b) **Oath of office—** An [officer](/usc/33/3002.md?p=b-3) who subscribed to the oath of office required by [section 3331 of title 5](/usc/5/3331.md) shall not be required to renew such oath or to take a new oath upon promotion to a higher [grade](/usc/33/3002.md?p=b-2), if the service of the [officer](/usc/33/3002.md?p=b-3) after the taking of such oath is continuous.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 107–372, title II, § 231, Dec. 19, 2002, 116 Stat. 3087.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Provisions similar to this section are contained in section 854a–2 of this title.