---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 14906"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "14906"
heading: "Officers eligible to serve on boards"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/14906"
units:
  - "Subtitle E — Reserve Components"
  - "Part III — Promotion and Retention of Officers on the Reserve Active-Status List"
  - "Chapter 1411 — Additional Provisions Relating to Involuntary Separation"
---

# §14906. Officers eligible to serve on boards

- (a) **Composition of Boards.—** Each board convened under this chapter shall consist of [officers](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-1) appointed as follows:
  - (1) Each member of the board shall be an [officer](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-1) of the same armed force as the [officer](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-1) being required to show cause for retention in an [active status](/usc/10/101.md?p=d-4).
  - (2) Each member of the board shall hold a [grade](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-7) above major or lieutenant commander, except that at least one member of the board shall hold a [grade](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-7) above lieutenant colonel or commander.
  - (3) Each member of the board shall be senior in [grade](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-7) to any [officer](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-1) to be considered by the board.
- (b) **Limitation.—** A person may not be a member of more than one board convened under this chapter to consider the same [officer](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-1).

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 103–337, div. A, title XVI, § 1611, Oct. 5, 1994, 108 Stat. 2960; amended Pub. L. 106–65, div. A, title V, § 504(b), Oct. 5, 1999, 113 Stat. 591.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1999—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 106–65 amended heading and text generally. Prior to amendment, text read as follows:

“(1) Each officer who serves on a board convened under this chapter shall be an officer of the same armed force as the officer being required to show cause for retention in an active status.

“(2) An officer may not serve on a board under this chapter unless the officer holds a grade above lieutenant colonel or commander and is senior in grade and rank to any officer considered by the board.”

### 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.