Title 10 — Armed ForcesRelease 119-73
§8452 Civilian teachers: number; compensation
Title 10 › Subtitle Subtitle C— - Navy and Marine Corps › Part PART III— - EDUCATION AND TRAINING › Chapter CHAPTER 853— - UNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY › § 8452
Summary
The Secretary of the Navy can hire as many civilian professors, instructors, and lecturers for the Naval Academy as he needs and he sets their pay. He can also set their exact work hours and tours, decide overtime pay or compensatory time for extra work even if other federal rules would normally apply, and can give these powers to other Navy officials (and allow them to reassign that authority).
Full Legal Text
Title 10, §8452
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(a)The Secretary of the Navy may employ as many civilians as professors, instructors, and lecturers at the Naval Academy as he considers necessary.
(b)The compensation of persons employed under this section is as prescribed by the Secretary.
(c)The Secretary of the Navy may, notwithstanding the provisions of subchapter V of chapter 55 of title 5 or section 6101 of such title, prescribe for persons employed under this section the following:
(1)The work schedule, including hours of work and tours of duty, set forth with such specificity and other characteristics as the Secretary determines appropriate.
(2)Any premium pay or compensatory time off for hours of work or tours of duty in excess of the regularly scheduled hours or tours of duty.
(d)The Secretary, to the extent he considers proper, may delegate the authority conferred by this section to any person in the Department of the Navy, with or without the authority to make successive redelegations.
Legislative History
Notes & Related Subsidiaries
Historical and Revision Notes
Revised sectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 695234 U.S.C. 1071 (as applicable to Naval Academy).Aug. 2, 1946, ch. 756, § 7(a) (as applicable to Naval Academy), 60 Stat. 854. 5 U.S.C. 412a.Aug. 2, 1946, ch. 756, § 39, 60 Stat. 858. The words “for the proper instruction of naval personnel” and the words “be paid out of naval appropriations” are omitted as surplusage. In subsection (c) the words “except the authority to prescribe
Regulations
” are omitted, since 34 U.S.C. 1071 contains no authority for the Secretary of the Navy to prescribe
Regulations
for the administration of that section.
Editorial Notes
Prior Provisions
A prior section 8452, added Pub. L. 85–861, § 1(180)(E), Sept. 2, 1958, 72 Stat. 1532, provided that, notwithstanding any other provision of law, a medical or dental officer may be promoted to temporary grade of captain at any time after first anniversary of date upon which he graduated from a medical, osteopathic, or dental school, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 96–513, title II, § 207, Dec. 12, 1980, 94 Stat. 2884, effective Sept. 15, 1981.
Amendments
2018—Pub. L. 115–232 renumbered section 6952 of this title as this section. 1999—Subsecs. (c), (d). Pub. L. 106–65 added subsec. (c) and redesignated former subsec. (c) as (d).
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective Date
of 2018 AmendmentAmendment 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.
Reference
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Citation
10 U.S.C. § 8452
Title 10 — Armed Forces
Last Updated
Apr 6, 2026
Release point: 119-73