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[CITE: 10USC7292]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                    Subtitle C--Navy and Marine Corps
 
                     PART IV--GENERAL ADMINISTRATION
 
                       CHAPTER 633--NAVAL VESSELS
 
Sec. 7292. Naming

    (a) Not more than one vessel of the Navy may have the same name.
    (b) Each battleship shall be named for a State. However, if the 
names of all the States are in use, a battleship may be named for a 
city, place, or person.
    (c) The Secretary of the Navy may change the name of any vessel 
bought for the Navy.

(Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 448.)

                                          Historical and Revision Notes
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            Revised section                      Source (U.S. Code)            
   Source (Statutes at Large)
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7292(a)...............................  34 U.S.C. 462.                       R.
S. 1532.
7292(b)...............................  34 U.S.C. 461.                       Ma
y 4, 1898, ch. 234, 30 Stat. 390
                                                                              (
2d sentence under ``Armor and
                                                                              A
rmament''); May 13, 1908, ch.
                                                                              1
66, 35 Stat. 159; June 29, 1949,
                                                                              c
h. 278, 63 Stat. 300 (6th par.).
7292(c)...............................  34 U.S.C. 463.                       R.
S. 1533.
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    In subsection (a) the words ``care shall be taken that'' are omitted 
as surplusage.
    In subsection (b) the words ``first class'' are omitted as obsolete.
    In subsection (c) the words ``by authority of law'' are omitted as 
surplusage.
