§309 — Title 14 Coast Guard | U.S. Code

Summary

Creates an Office of the Coast Guard Reserve led by a Director who is the main adviser to the Commandant and may do other tasks the Commandant assigns. The President appoints the Director with Senate approval. The Director must be a Coast Guard officer with at least 10 years of commissioned service, be above the rank of captain, and be recommended by the Secretary of Homeland Security. The President sets the term, normally 2 years but no more than 4, and the Director can be removed for cause. While serving, the Director holds a rank above captain without giving up the officer’s permanent rank. The Director is in charge of preparing, justifying, and carrying out the Reserve’s budgets for personnel, operations and maintenance, and construction, and manages those appropriations. Each year the Director must send a report, prepared with the Commandant, to the Secretary of Homeland Security and the Secretary of Defense on the Reserve’s condition and its ability to meet missions; the report may be in classified and unclassified versions.

Title 14, §309

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(a)There is in the executive part of the Coast Guard an Office of the Coast Guard Reserve. The head of the Office is the Director of the Coast Guard Reserve. The Director of the Coast Guard Reserve is the principal adviser to the Commandant on Coast Guard Reserve matters and may have such additional functions as the Commandant may direct.

(b)The President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall appoint the Director of the Coast Guard Reserve, from officers of the Coast Guard who—

(1)have had at least 10 years of commissioned service;

(2)are in a grade above captain; and

(3)have been recommended by the Secretary of Homeland Security.

(c)(1)The Director of the Coast Guard Reserve holds office for a term determined by the President, normally two years, but not more than four years. An officer may be removed from the position of Director for cause at any time.

(2)The Director of the Coast Guard Reserve, while so serving, holds a grade above Captain, without vacating the officer’s permanent grade.

(d)The Director of the Coast Guard Reserve is the official within the executive part of the Coast Guard who, subject to the authority, direction, and control of the Secretary of Homeland Security and the Commandant, is responsible for preparation, justification, and execution of the personnel, operation and maintenance, and construction budgets for the Coast Guard Reserve. As such, the Director of the Coast Guard Reserve is the director and functional manager of appropriations made for the Coast Guard Reserve in those areas.

(e)The Director of the Coast Guard Reserve shall submit to the Secretary of Homeland Security and the Secretary of Defense an annual report on the state of the Coast Guard Reserve and the ability of the Coast Guard Reserve to meet its missions. The report shall be prepared in conjunction with the Commandant and may be submitted in classified and unclassified versions.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Prior Provisions

A prior section 309, acts Aug. 4, 1949, ch. 393, 63 Stat. 519; Aug. 3, 1950, ch. 536, § 11, 64 Stat. 407, authorized retirement of warrant officers with grade of commissioned warrant officer in case of special commendation, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 86–155, § 10(a)(1), (b), Aug. 11, 1959, 73 Stat. 338, effective Nov. 1, 1959, and by Pub. L. 88–130, § 1(10)(A), Sept. 24, 1963, 77 Stat. 177.

Amendments

2018—Pub. L. 115–282 renumbered section 53 of this title as this section. 2002—Subsecs. (b)(3), (d), (e). Pub. L. 107–296 substituted “of Homeland Security” for “of Transportation”.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

of 2002 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 107–296 effective on the date of transfer of the Coast Guard to the Department of Homeland Security, see section 1704(g) of Pub. L. 107–296, set out as a note under section 101 of Title 10, Armed Forces.

§309 Office of the Coast Guard Reserve; Director