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Title 24USC / Chapter VII

Chapter 7 National Cemeteries

§279d Markers to honor memory of certain Armed Forces personnel

The Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of the Army shall set aside, when available, suitable plots in the national cemeteries under their jurisdiction to honor the memory of members of the Armed Forces missing in action, or who died or were killed while serving in such forces, and whose remains have not been identified, have been buried at sea, or have been determined to be nonrecoverable, and shall, under regulations to be jointly prescribed by them, permit the erection of appropriate markers thereon in honor of any such member or group of members.

(Aug. 27, 1954, ch. 1013, 68 Stat. 880; July 3, 1956, ch. 509, 70 Stat. 489; Repealed. Pub. L. 93–43, §7(a)(1), (4), (5), (7), June 18, 1973, 87 Stat. 82; See section 2403(a), (b) of Title 38.