---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 14103"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "14103"
heading: "Oath of members"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/14103"
units:
  - "Subtitle E — Reserve Components"
  - "Part III — Promotion and Retention of Officers on the Reserve Active-Status List"
  - "Chapter 1403 — Selection Boards"
---

# §14103. Oath of members


Each member of a selection board convened under [section 14101 of this title](/usc/10/14101.md) shall take an oath to perform the duties of a member of the board without prejudice or partiality, having in view both the special fitness of [officers](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-1) and the efficiency of the member’s armed force.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 103–337, div. A, title XVI, § 1611, Oct. 5, 1994, 108 Stat. 2925.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in sections 3362(d), 5894, and 8362(d) of this title, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 103–337, § 1629(a)(1), (b)(2), (c)(1).

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### 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.