Title 10 — Armed ForcesRelease 119-73not60
§14003 Reserve Active-status Lists: Position of Officers on the List
Title 10 › Subtitle Subtitle E— Reserve Components › Part III— PROMOTION AND RETENTION OF OFFICERS ON THE RESERVE ACTIVE-STATUS LIST › Chapter 1401— APPLICABILITY AND RESERVE ACTIVE-STATUS LISTS › § 14003
Summary
Officers must be listed by seniority in their grade on their service's active-reserve roster. If a temporary appointment or an assignment put them in a different spot, they return to the grade and place they would have had without it.
Full Legal Text
Title 10, §14003
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(a)Officers shall be carried on the reserve active-status list of the armed force of which they are members in the order of seniority of the grade in which they are serving in an active status. Officers serving in the same grade shall be carried in the order of their rank in that grade.
(b)An officer whose position on the reserve active-status list results from service under a temporary appointment or in a grade held by reason of assignment to a position has, when that appointment or assignment ends, the grade and position on that list that the officer would have held if the officer had not received that appointment or assignment.
Legislative History
Notes & Related Subsidiaries
Editorial Notes
Amendments
1996—Pub. L. 104–106 inserted “lists” in section catchline.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective Date
of 1996 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 104–106 effective as if included in the Reserve Officer Personnel Management Act, title XVI of Pub. L. 103–337, as enacted on Oct. 5, 1994, see section 1501(f)(3) of Pub. L. 104–106, set out as a note under section 113 of this title.
Effective Date
Section effective Oct. 1, 1996, see section 1691(b)(1) of Pub. L. 103–337, set out as a note under section 10001 of this title.
Reference
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Citation
10 U.S.C. § 14003
Title 10 — Armed Forces
Last Updated
Apr 3, 2026
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