[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 32, Volume 5, Parts 700 to 799]
[Revised as of  July 1, 1998]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 32CFR700.901]

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                       TITLE 32--NATIONAL DEFENSE
 
                   CHAPTER VI--DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY
 
PART 700--UNITED STATES NAVY REGULATIONS--Table of Contents
 
                  Subpart I--The Senior Officer Present
 
Sec. 700.901  The senior officer present.

    Source: 39 FR 7220, Feb. 25, 1974 unless otherwise noted.


    Unless some other officer has been so designated by competent 
authority, the ``senior officer present'' is the senior line officer of 
the Navy on active duty, eligible for command at sea, who is present and 
in command of any part of the Department of the Navy in the locality or 
within an area prescribed by competent authority, except where personnel 
of both the Navy and the Marine Corps are present on shore and the 
officer of the Marine Corps who is in command is senior to the senior 
line officer of the Navy. In such cases, the officer of the Marine Corps 
shall be the senior officer present on shore.