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Title 24USC / Chapter VII

Chapter 7 National Cemeteries

§281b Same; expansion of existing cemeteries; limitation of area

Upon the selection by the Secretary of the Army of such land, as provided in section 281a of this title, the Secretary of the Army is authorized and directed to expand existing national cemeteries and to provide for the care and maintenance thereof. No national cemetery as expanded pursuant to section 281-281c of this title shall have an area in excess of six hundred and forty acres.

(Aug. 4, 1947, ch. 467, §2, 61 Stat. 742; Repealed. Pub. L. 93–43, §7(a)(6), (8), (10)–(12), (60), June 18, 1973, 87 Stat. 82, 88; eff. Sept. 1, 1973)