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[CITE: 36USC103]

 
     TITLE 36--PATRIOTIC AND NATIONAL OBSERVANCES, CEREMONIES, AND 
                              ORGANIZATIONS
 
      Subtitle I--Patriotic and National Observances and Ceremonies
 
                   Part A--Observances and Ceremonies
 
              CHAPTER 1--PATRIOTIC AND NATIONAL OBSERVANCES
 
Sec. 103. Cancer Control Month

    (a) General.--The President is requested--
        (1) to issue each year a proclamation designating April as 
    Cancer Control Month; and
        (2) to invite each year the chief executive officers of the 
    States, territories, and possessions of the United States to issue 
    proclamations designating April as Cancer Control Month.

    (b) Contents of Proclamations.--As part of those proclamations, the 
chief executive officers and President are requested to invite the 
medical profession, the press, and all agencies and individuals 
interested in a national program for the control of cancer by education 
and other cooperative means to unite during Cancer Control Month in a 
public dedication to the program and in a concerted effort to make the 
people of the United States aware of the need for the program.
(Pub. L. 105-225, Aug. 12, 1998, 112 Stat. 1255.)

                                          Historical and Revision Notes
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           Revised  Section                    Source (U.S. Code)              
 Source (Statutes at Large)
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103...................................  36:150.                          Mar. 2
8, 1938, ch. 56, 52 Stat. 148.
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    In subsection (a)(2), the words ``chief executive officers'' are 
substituted for ``Governors'' for clarity and consistency in the revised 
title and with other titles of the United States Code.
