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Title 24USC / Chapter VII

Chapter 7 National Cemeteries

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

A commission is created, to be composed of the Secretary of the Army, the Secretary of the Navy, and the Secretary of the Air Force, which shall submit annually to the President, who shall transmit the same to Congress by the first Monday in December, recommendations as to what, if any, inscriptions, tablets, busts, or other memorials shall be erected, and what, if any, bodies of deceased members of the Army, Air Force, Navy, and Marine Corps shall be entombed during the next ensuing years within the Arlington Memorial Amphitheater, in the Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia: Provided, That no memorial shall be placed and no body shall be interred in the grounds about the Arlington Memorial Amphitheater within a distance of two hundred and fifty feet from the said memorial.

(Mar. 4, 1921, ch. 169, §1, 41 Stat. 1440; Repealed. Pub. L. 86–694, §2, Sept. 2, 1960, 74 Stat. 739)