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§51303 Non-competitive appointments
Title 46 › Subtitle Subtitle V— - Merchant Marine › Part Part B— - Merchant Marine Service › Chapter CHAPTER 513— - UNITED STATES MERCHANT MARINE ACADEMY › § 51303
Summary
Each year the Secretary may appoint up to 50 cadets at the Merchant Marine Academy noncompetitively and must try to keep national balance, and may also appoint up to 40 cadets the Academy sponsored to prep school the prior year who met sponsorship terms.
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Title 46, §51303
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(a)The Secretary of Transportation may appoint each year without competition as cadets at the United States Merchant Marine Academy not more than 50 qualified individuals with qualities the Secretary considers to be of special value to the Academy. In making these appointments, the Secretary shall try to achieve a national demographic balance at the Academy.
(b)The Secretary of Transportation may appoint each year as cadets at the United States Merchant Marine Academy not more than 40 qualified individuals sponsored by the Academy to attend preparatory school during the academic year prior to entrance in the Academy, and who have successfully met the terms and conditions of sponsorship set by the Academy.
Legislative History
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Historical and Revision Notes
Revised SectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 5130346 App.:1295b(b) (3)(D).June 29, 1936, ch. 858, title XIII, § 1303(b)(3)(D), as added Pub. L. 96–453, § 2, Oct. 15, 1980, 94 Stat. 1999.
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Amendments
2019—Pub. L. 116–92 designated existing provisions as subsec. (a), inserted heading, and added subsec. (b). 2016—Pub. L. 114–328 substituted “50” for “40”.
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46 U.S.C. § 51303
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