---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 982"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "982"
heading: "Members: service on State and local juries"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/982"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part II — Personnel"
  - "Chapter 49 — Miscellaneous Prohibitions and Penalties"
---

# §982. Members: service on State and local juries

- (a) A [member](/usc/10/1408.md?p=a-5) of the [armed forces](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-4) on [active duty](/usc/10/101.md?p=d-1) may not be required to serve on a [State](#d) or local jury if the [Secretary concerned](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-9) determines that such service—
  - (1) would unreasonably interfere with the performance of the [member](/usc/10/1408.md?p=a-5)’s military duties; or
  - (2) would adversely affect the readiness of the unit, command, or activity to which the [member](/usc/10/1408.md?p=a-5) is assigned.
- (b) A determination by the [Secretary concerned](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-9) under this section is conclusive.
- (c) The [Secretary concerned](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-9) shall prescribe regulations for the administration of this section.
- (d) In this section, the term “State” [includes](/usc/10/101.md?p=g-4) the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and each territory of the [United States](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-1).

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 99–661, div. A, title V, § 502(a), Nov. 14, 1986, 100 Stat. 3863.)