---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 14109"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "14109"
heading: "Reports of promotion boards: in general"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/14109"
units:
  - "Subtitle E — Reserve Components"
  - "Part III — Promotion and Retention of Officers on the Reserve Active-Status List"
  - "Chapter 1403 — Selection Boards"
---

# §14109. Reports of promotion boards: in general

- (a) **Report of Officers Recommended for Promotion.—** Each promotion board convened under [section 14101(a) of this title](/usc/10/14101.md?p=a) shall submit to the [Secretary](/usc/10/12521.md?p=4) of the military [department](/usc/10/12521.md?p=5) concerned a report in writing containing a list of the names of the [officers](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-1) recommended by the board for promotion. The report shall be signed by each member of the board.
- (b) **Certification.—** Each report under [subsection (a)](#a) shall include a certification—
  - (1) that the board has carefully considered the record of each [officer](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-1) whose name was furnished to the board; and
  - (2) that, in the case of a promotion board convened under [section 14101(a) of this title](/usc/10/14101.md?p=a), in the opinion of a majority of the members of the board, the [officers](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-1) recommended for promotion by the board are best qualified for promotion to meet the needs of the armed force concerned (as noted in the guidelines or information furnished the board under [section 14107 of this title](/usc/10/14107.md)) among those [officers](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-1) whose names were furnished to the selection board.
- (c) **Show-Cause Recommendations.—**
  - (1) A promotion board convened under [section 14101(a) of this title](/usc/10/14101.md?p=a) shall include in its report to the [Secretary concerned](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-9) the name of any [reserve](/usc/10/101.md?p=c-6) [officer](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-1) before it for consideration for promotion whose record, in the opinion of a majority of the members of the board, indicates that the [officer](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-1) should be required to show cause for retention in an [active status](/usc/10/101.md?p=d-4).
  - (2) If such a report names an [officer](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-1) as having a record which indicates that the [officer](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-1) should be required to show cause for retention, the [Secretary concerned](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-9) may provide for the review of the record of that [officer](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-1) as provided under regulations prescribed under [section 14902 of this title](/usc/10/14902.md).
- (d) **Report of Officers Recommended for Higher Placement on Promotion List.—** A promotion board convened under [section 14101(a) of this title](/usc/10/14101.md?p=a) shall, when authorized under [section 14108(f) of this title](/usc/10/14108.md?p=f), include in its report to the [Secretary concerned](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-9)—
  - (1) the names of those [officers](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-1) the promotion board recommends be placed higher on the promotion list; and
  - (2) the order in which the promotion board recommends those [officers](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-1) should be placed on the promotion list.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 103–337, div. A, title XVI, § 1611, Oct. 5, 1994, 108 Stat. 2928; amended Pub. L. 116–92, div. A, title V, § 510(b), Dec. 20, 2019, 133 Stat. 1347.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

Provisions similar to those in subsecs. (a) and (b) of this section were contained in section 5897 of this title, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 103–337, § 1629(b)(2).

### Amendments

2019—Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 116–92 added subsec. (d).

### 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.