---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 613"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "613"
heading: "Oath of members of selection boards"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/613"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part II — Personnel"
  - "Chapter 36 — Promotion, Separation, and Involuntary Retirement of Officers on the Active-Duty List"
  - "Subchapter I — Selection Boards"
---

# §613. Oath of members of selection boards


Each member of a selection board shall swear that he will perform his duties as a member of the board without prejudice or partiality and having in view both the special fitness of [officers](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-1) and the efficiency of his armed force.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 96–513, title I, § 105, Dec. 12, 1980, 94 Stat. 2851.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective Sept. 15, 1981, but the authority to prescribe regulations under this section effective on Dec. 12, 1980, see section 701 of Pub. L. 96–513, set out as an Effective Date of 1980 Amendment note under section 101 of this title.