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Title 24USC / Chapter VII

 

Chapter 7 National Cemeteries

 

Transfer of Functions

 

Sec. 271 Manner of acquisition of land

 

Sec. 271a State donations of land

 

Sec. 272 Appraisement of real estate

 

Sec. 273 Payment of appraised value

 

Sec. 274 Superintendent of cemeteries

 

Sec. 275 Selection of superintendents

 

Sec. 276 Fuel and quarters for superintendents

 

Sec. 277 Superintendent of Antietam Battlefield

 

Sec. 278 Care and maintenance of cemeteries

 

Sec. 279 Inclosure, headstones, and registers

 

Sec. 279a Headstones for unmarked graves of Civil War soldiers, members of armed forces, reserve components, National Guard, Air National Guard, and Reserve Officers Training Corps; compilation of list; inscription of names on Memorial

 

Sec. 279b Same; rules and regulations

 

Sec. 279c Same; preservation of records

 

Sec. 279d Markers to honor memory of certain Armed Forces personnel

 

Sec. 280 Headstones in private cemeteries; records

 

Sec. 280a Confederate soldiers; headstones for graves; preservation of records

 

Sec. 280b Standard headstone or marker in cemeteries where stone markers are unacceptable

 

Sec. 281 Persons to be buried in national cemeteries; evidence of right\

 

Sec. 281a Utilization of surplus military real property for cemeteries

 

Sec. 281b Same; expansion of existing cemeteries; limitation of area

 

Sec. 281c Same; regulations by Secretary of the Army

 

Sec. 281d Utilization of surplus military real property for cemeteries at Fort Logan, Colo.

 

Sec. 281e Same; selection of lands; care and maintenance; size

 

Sec. 281f Same; rules and regulations by Secretary of Army

 

Sec. 281g Expansion of existing cemeteries

 

Sec. 282 Burial of Confederate Veterans

 

Sec. 283 Cemetery near City of Mexico

 

Sec. 284 Regulations for cemetery in Mexico

 

Sec. 285 Burial grounds of Zachary Taylor as national cemetery

 

Sec. 286 Penalty for defacing cemeteries

 

Sec. 287 Jurisdiction of United States

 

Sec. 288 Single approach to cemeteries authorized

 

Sec. 289 Conveyance to State or municipality of approach road to national security

 

Sec. 290 Encroachment by railroad on rights-of-way

 

Sec. 291 Arlington Memorial Amphitheater; commission to make recommendations for inscriptions, entombments, etc.

 

Sec. 292 Same; chairman and executive and disbursing officer of commission

 

Sec. 293 Same; specific authorization from Congress for inscriptions, entombments, etc.

 

Sec. 294 Same; restrictions on inscriptions, entombments, etc.

 

Sec. 295 Same; character of inscriptions, etc.

 

Sec. 295a Arlington Memorial Amphitheater

 

Sec. 296 Preservation of historic graveyards in abandoned military posts; conveyance to grantees