---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 10152"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "10152"
heading: "Standby Reserve: inactive status list"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/10152"
units:
  - "Subtitle E — Reserve Components"
  - "Part I — Organization and Administration"
  - "Chapter 1005 — Elements of Reserve Components"
---

# §10152. Standby Reserve: inactive status list


An inactive status list shall be maintained in the Standby [Reserve](/usc/10/101.md?p=c-6). Whenever an authority designated by the [Secretary concerned](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-9) considers that it is in the best interest of the armed force concerned, a member in the Standby [Reserve](/usc/10/101.md?p=c-6) who is not required to remain a [Reserve](/usc/10/101.md?p=c-6), and who cannot participate in prescribed training, may, if qualified, be transferred to the inactive status list under regulations to be prescribed by the [Secretary concerned](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-9). These regulations shall fix the conditions under which such a member is entitled to be returned to an [active status](/usc/10/101.md?p=d-4).


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 103–337, div. A, title XVI, § 1661(a)(1), Oct. 5, 1994, 108 Stat. 2975.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in section 273(b) of this title, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 103–337, § 1661(a)(2)(A).

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective Dec. 1, 1994, except as otherwise provided, see section 1691 of Pub. L. 103–337, set out as a note under section 10001 of this title.