# § 14003. Reserve active-status lists: position of officers on the list
**(a)** **Position on List.—** Officers shall be carried on the reserve active-status list of the armed force of which they are members in the order of seniority of the grade in which they are serving in an active status. Officers serving in the same grade shall be carried in the order of their rank in that grade.
**(b)** **Effect on Position Held by Reason of Temporary Appointment or Assignment.—** An officer whose position on the reserve active-status list results from service under a temporary appointment or in a grade held by reason of assignment to a position has, when that appointment or assignment ends, the grade and position on that list that the officer would have held if the officer had not received that appointment or assignment.
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**Source Credit**: (Added Pub. L. 103–337, div. A, title XVI, § 1611, Oct. 5, 1994, 108 Stat. 2923; amended Pub. L. 104–106, div. A, title XV, § 1501(b)(22), Feb. 10, 1996, 110 Stat. 497.)
## Editorial Notes
### Amendments
1996— inserted “lists” in section catchline.
## Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
### Effective Date of 1996 Amendment
Amendment by effective as if included in the Reserve Officer Personnel Management Act, title XVI of , as enacted on , see , set out as a note under .
### Effective Date
Section effective , see , set out as a note under .