---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 14003"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "14003"
heading: "Reserve active-status lists: position of officers on the list"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/14003"
units:
  - "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. Reserve active-status lists: position of officers on the list

- (a) **Position on List.—** [Officers](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-1) shall be carried on the [reserve active-status list](/usc/10/101.md?p=c-7) of the armed force of which they are members in the order of seniority of the [grade](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-7) in which they are serving in an [active status](/usc/10/101.md?p=d-4). [Officers](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-1) serving in the same [grade](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-7) shall be carried in the order of their [rank](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-8) in that [grade](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-7).
- (b) **Effect on Position Held by Reason of Temporary Appointment or Assignment.—** An [officer](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-1) whose position on the [reserve active-status list](/usc/10/101.md?p=c-7) results from service under a temporary appointment or in a [grade](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-7) held by reason of assignment to a position has, when that appointment or assignment ends, the [grade](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-7) and position on that list that the [officer](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-1) would have held if the [officer](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-1) had not received that appointment or assignment.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 103–337, div. A, title XVI, § 1611, Oct. 5, 1994, 108 Stat. 2923; amended Pub. L. 104–106, div. A, title XV, § 1501(b)(22), Feb. 10, 1996, 110 Stat. 497.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1996—Pub. L. 104–106 inserted “lists” in section catchline.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 1996 Amendment

Amendment 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.