Title 14, Coast GuardRelease 119-102
§313 Chief of Staff to President: Appointment
Title 14 › SUBTITLE I — ESTABLISHMENT, POWERS, DUTIES, AND ADMINISTRATION › CHAPTER 3 — COMPOSITION AND ORGANIZATION › SUBCHAPTER II — POSITIONS › § 313
Summary
The President can choose a Coast Guard flag officer to serve as the President's Chief of Staff. The Senate must approve that appointment.
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Title 14, §313
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The President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, may appoint a flag officer of the Coast Guard as the Chief of Staff to the President.
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Prior Provisions
A prior section 313 was renumbered section 331 of this title. Another prior section 313, acts Aug. 4, 1949, ch. 393, 63 Stat. 520; Aug. 3, 1950, ch. 536, § 15, 64 Stat. 407, provided that any warrant officer who was retired under sections 303 to 305 or 307 of this title should be retired from active service with the highest grade held by him in which his performance of duty was satisfactory, but not lower than his permanent grade, with retired pay of the grade with which retired, prior to repeal by act May 29, 1954, ch. 249, § 20(o), 68 Stat. 167, and by Pub. L. 88–130, § 1(10)(A), Sept. 24, 1963, 77 Stat. 177. A prior section 313a, added Pub. L. 85–144, § 2(a), Aug. 14, 1957, 71 Stat. 367, related to retirement of warrant officers in cases where higher grade has been held, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 88–130, § 1(10)(A), Sept. 24, 1963, 77 Stat. 177.
Amendments
2025—Pub. L. 119–60 renumbered section 310 of this title as this section.
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14 U.S.C. § 313
Title 14, Coast Guard
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102