---
kind: "section"
citation: "14 U.S.C. § 3732"
title: "14"
title_heading: "Coast Guard"
number: "3732"
heading: "Applicability of this subchapter"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/14/3732"
units:
  - "Subtitle III — Coast Guard Reserve and Auxiliary"
  - "Chapter 37 — Coast Guard Reserve"
  - "Subchapter II — Personnel"
---

# §3732. Applicability of this subchapter


This subchapter applies only to the Reserve; except that it does not apply to a temporary member of the Reserve.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 96–322, § 1, Aug. 4, 1980, 94 Stat. 1007, § 721; renumbered § 3732, Pub. L. 115–282, title I, § 118(b), Dec. 4, 2018, 132 Stat. 4233.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in section 771 of this title prior to the complete revision of former chapter 21 of this title by Pub. L. 96–322.

### Amendments

2018—Pub. L. 115–282 renumbered section 721 of this title as this section.