---
kind: "section"
citation: "14 U.S.C. § 2163"
title: "14"
title_heading: "Coast Guard"
number: "2163"
heading: "Removal of officer from active duty; action by Secretary"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/14/2163"
units:
  - "Subtitle II — Personnel"
  - "Chapter 21 — Personnel; Officers"
  - "Subchapter II — Discharges; Retirements; Revocation of Commissions; Separation for Cause"
---

# §2163. Removal of officer from active duty; action by Secretary


The Secretary may remove an officer from active duty if his removal is recommended by a board of inquiry under [section 2159 of this title](/usc/14/2159.md). The Secretary’s action in such as case is final and conclusive.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 88–130, § 1(10)(C), Sept. 24, 1963, 77 Stat. 189, § 326; renumbered § 2163 and amended Pub. L. 115–282, title I, §§ 112(b), 123(b)(2), Dec. 4, 2018, 132 Stat. 4216, 4240; Pub. L. 119–60, div. G, title LXXII, § 7223(d)(1)(B), Dec. 18, 2025, 139 Stat. 1702.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2025—Pub. L. 119–60 substituted “board of inquiry under section 2159 of this title” for “board of review under section 2160 of this title”.

2018—Pub. L. 115–282, § 123(b)(2), substituted “section 2160” for “section 323”.

Pub. L. 115–282, § 112(b), renumbered section 326 of this title as this section.