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[CITE: 10USC14002]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                     Subtitle E--Reserve Components
 
  PART III--PROMOTION AND RETENTION OF OFFICERS ON THE RESERVE ACTIVE-
                               STATUS LIST
 
       CHAPTER 1401--APPLICABILITY AND RESERVE ACTIVE-STATUS LISTS
 
Sec. 14002. Reserve active-status lists: requirement for each 
        armed force
        
    (a) The Secretary of each military department shall maintain a 
single list, to be known as the reserve active-status list, for each 
armed force under the Secretary's jurisdiction. That list shall include 
the names of all reserve officers of that armed force who are in an 
active status other than those on an active-duty list described in 
section 620 of this title or warrant officers (including commissioned 
warrant officers).
    (b) The reserve active-status list for the Army shall include 
officers in the Army Reserve and the Army National Guard of the United 
States. The reserve active-status list for the Air Force shall include 
officers in the Air Force Reserve and the Air National Guard of the 
United States. The Secretary of the Navy shall maintain separate lists 
for the Naval Reserve and the Marine Corps Reserve.

(Added Pub. L. 103-337, div. A, title XVI, Sec. 1611, Oct. 5, 1994, 108 
Stat. 2922.)


               Establishment of Reserve Active-Status List

    Section 1686 of title XVI of div. A of Pub. L. 103-337 provided 
that:
    ``(a) Six-Month Deadline.--Not later than six months after the 
effective date of this title [Oct. 1, 1996, see section 1691(b)(1), (2) 
of Pub. L. 103-337, set out as an Effective Date note under section 
10001 of this title], the Secretary of the military department concerned 
shall ensure that--
        ``(1) all officers of the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine 
    Corps who are required to be placed on the reserve active-status 
    list of their Armed Force under section 14002 of title 10, United 
    States Code, as added by this title, shall be placed on the list for 
    their armed force and in their competitive category; and
        ``(2) the relative seniority of those officers on each such list 
    shall be established.
    ``(b) Regulations.--The Secretary concerned shall prescribe 
regulations for the establishment of relative seniority. The Secretary 
of the Army and the Secretary of the Air Force shall, in prescribing 
such regulations, provide for the consideration of both promotion 
service established under section 3360(b) or 8360(e) of title 10, United 
States Code, as in effect on the day before the effective date of this 
title, and total commissioned service established under section 3360(c) 
or 8366(e) of such title, as in effect on the day before the effective 
date of this title. An officer placed on a reserve active-status list in 
accordance with this section shall be considered to have been on the 
list as of the effective date of this title.''


   Preservation of Relative Seniority Under Initial Establishment of 
                       Reserve Active-Status List

    Section 1687 of title XVI of div. A of Pub. L. 103-337 provided 
that: ``In order to maintain the relative seniority among reserve 
officers of the Army, Navy, Air Force, or Marine Corps as determined 
under section 1686 [set out above], the Secretary of the military 
department concerned may, during the one-year period beginning on the 
effective date of this title [Oct. 1, 1996, see section 1691(b)(1), (2) 
of Pub. L. 103-337, set out as an Effective Date note under section 
10001 of this title], adjust the date of rank of any reserve officer of 
such Armed Force who was in an active status but not on the active-duty 
list on such effective date.''

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 101 of this title.
