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[CITE: 10USC8012]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                          Subtitle D--Air Force
 
                          PART I--ORGANIZATION
 
                CHAPTER 803--DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE
 
Sec. 8012. Department of the Air Force: seal

    The Secretary of the Air Force shall have a seal for the Department 
of the Air Force. The design of the seal must be approved by the 
President. Judicial notice shall be taken of the seal.

(Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 488, Sec. 8011; renumbered 
Sec. 8012, Pub. L. 99-433, title V, Sec. 521(a)(1), Oct. 1, 1986, 100 
Stat. 1055.)

                                          Historical and Revision Notes
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            Revised section                      Source (U.S. Code)            
   Source (Statutes at Large)
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8011..................................  5:626(g).                            Ju
ly 26, 1947, ch. 343, Sec.
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07(g), 61 Stat 503.
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    The words ``of office'' are omitted as surplusage. The words ``a 
design'' are substituted for the words ``such device''.


                            Prior Provisions

    A prior section 8012 was renumbered section 8013 of this title and 
subsequently repealed.

       Ex. Ord. No. 9902. Seal for the Department of the Air Force

    Ex. Ord. No. 9902, Nov. 1, 1947, 12 F.R. 7153, provided:
    WHEREAS section 207(g) of the National Security Act of 1947, 
approved July 26, 1947 (Public Law 253, 80th Congress 1st Session) 
provides, in part, that the Secretary of the Air Force shall cause a 
seal of office to be made for the Department of the Air Force of such 
device as the President shall approve; and
    WHEREAS the Secretary of the Air Force has caused to be made and has 
recommended that I approve a seal the design of which accompanies and is 
hereby made a part of this order, and which is described in heraldic 
terms as follows:
    SHIELD: Per fess nebuly abased azure and argent, in chief a 
thunderbolt or inflamed proper.
    CREST: On a wreath argent and azure an American bald eagle, wings 
displayed and partially elevated proper in front of a cloud argent.
    Encircling the shield and crest an arc of thirteen stars and below 
the shield the inscription ``MCMXLVII''.
    On a band encircling the whole the inscriptions ``Department of the 
Air Force'' and ``United States of America.''
    When illustrating the seal in color the background shall be 
ultramarine blue, the shield a light blue and white, and the thunderbolt 
in gold with flames in natural color. The twists of the wreath shall be 
alternated white and blue, and the eagle shall be in natural color in 
front of a white cloud. The thirteen stars shall be white, and the Roman 
numerals shall be gold. The encircling band shall be white edged in gold 
with black letters.
    AND WHEREAS it appears that such seal is of suitable design and is 
appropriate for establishment as the official seal of the Department of 
the Air Force:
    NOW, THEREFORE, by virtue of and pursuant to the authority vested in 
me by the said section 207(g) of the National Security Act of 1947, I 
hereby approve such seal as the official seal of the Department of the 
Air Force.
                                                        Harry S. Truman.
