14 U.S.C. § 262 : US Code - Section 262: Failure of selection for promotion

Search 14 U.S.C. § 262 : US Code - Section 262: Failure of selection for promotion

(a) An officer, other than an officer serving in the grade of
captain, who is, or is senior to, the junior officer in the
promotion zone established for his grade under section 256 of this
title, fails of selection if he is not selected for promotion by
the selection board which considered him, or if having been
recommended for promotion by the board, his name is thereafter
removed from the report of the board by the President.
(b) An officer shall not be considered to have failed of
selection if he was not considered by a selection board because of
administrative error. If he is selected by the next succeeding
selection board and promoted, he shall be given the date of rank
and position on the active duty promotion list in the grade to
which promoted that he would have held had he been recommended by
the first selection board.