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[CITE: 36USC109]

 
     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. 109. Father's Day

    (a) Designation.--The third Sunday in June is Father's Day.
    (b) Proclamation.--The President is requested to issue a 
proclamation--
        (1) calling on United States Government officials to display the 
    flag of the United States on all Government buildings on Father's 
    Day;
        (2) inviting State and local governments and the people of the 
    United States to observe Father's Day with appropriate ceremonies; 
    and
        (3) urging the people of the United States to offer public and 
    private expressions of Father's Day to the abiding love and 
    gratitude they have for their fathers.
(Pub. L. 105-225, Aug. 12, 1998, 112 Stat. 1256.)

                                          Historical and Revision Notes
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           Revised  Section                    Source (U.S. Code)              
 Source (Statutes at Large)
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109(a)................................  36:142a (1st sentence).          Apr. 2
4, 1972, Pub. L. 92-278, 86 Stat.
                                                                          124.
109(b)................................  36:142a (last sentence).
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    In subsection (b)(1), the word ``appropriate'' is omitted as 
unnecessary.
    In subsection (b)(2), the words ``State and local governments'' are 
substituted for ``the governments of the States and communities'' for 
consistency in the revised title and with other titles of the United 
States Code.
