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Title 24USC / Chapter VII

Chapter 7 National Cemeteries

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

No inscription, tablet, bust, or other memorial as provided for in section 291-295 of this title shall be erected to commemorate any person who shall not have rendered conspicuously distinguished service in the United States Army, Air Force, Navy, or Marine Corps, nor shall the body of any such person be entombed in the Arlington Memorial Amphitheater; nor shall any such memorial be erected or any body be entombed therein within ten years after the date of death of the person so to be commemorated, except as authorized by Congress.

(Mar. 4, 1921, ch. 169, §4, 41 Stat. 1440; Repealed.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