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[CITE: 36USC2105]

 
     TITLE 36--PATRIOTIC AND NATIONAL OBSERVANCES, CEREMONIES, AND 
                              ORGANIZATIONS
 
      Subtitle I--Patriotic and National Observances and Ceremonies
 
Part B--United States Government Organizations Involved with Observances 
                             and Ceremonies
 
            CHAPTER 21--AMERICAN BATTLE MONUMENTS COMMISSION
 
Sec. 2105. Monuments built by the United States Government

    (a) Memorials.--The American Battle Monuments Commission shall 
prepare plans and estimates to build suitable memorials commemorating 
the service of American Armed Forces, and shall build and maintain 
memorials in the United States and, as the Commission decides, at any 
place outside the United States where the Armed Forces have served since 
April 6, 1917.
    (b) Architecture and Art.--The Commission shall build and maintain 
works of architecture and art in United States cemeteries located 
outside the United States and the territories and possessions of the 
United States that are permanent cemeteries. The Secretary of Veterans 
Affairs shall maintain works of architecture and art built by the 
Commission in the National Cemetery Administration, as described in 
section 2400(b) of title 38.
    (c) Control and Supervision of Materials, Design, and Building.--(1) 
The Commission shall control the materials and design and prescribe 
regulations for, and supervise the building of, all memorial monuments 
and buildings in United States cemeteries located outside the United 
States and the territories and possessions of the United States.
    (2) The Commission shall control the design and prescribe 
regulations for the building of all memorial monuments and buildings 
commemorating the service of American Armed Forces that are built in a 
foreign country or political division of the foreign country that 
authorizes the Commission to carry out those duties and powers.
    (d) Approval by National Commission of Fine Arts.--A design for a 
memorial must be approved by the National Commission of Fine Arts before 
the Commission can accept it.

(Pub. L. 105-225, Aug. 12, 1998, 112 Stat. 1271; Pub. L. 105-368, title 
IV, Sec. 403(d)(1), Nov. 11, 1998, 112 Stat. 3339.)

                                          Historical and Revision Notes
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           Revised  Section                    Source (U.S. Code)              
 Source (Statutes at Large)
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2105(a)...............................  36:123 (1st par. 1st sentence).  Mar. 4
, 1923, ch. 283, Sec.  3, 42
                                                                          Stat.
 1509; June 26, 1946, ch. 502, 60
                                                                          Stat.
 317; July 25, 1956, ch. 721,
                                                                          Secs.
  2(b), (d), 3(b), 70 Stat. 640,
                                                                          641.
2105(b)...............................  36:123 (1st par. 2d, last
                                         sentences).
2105(c)...............................  36:123 (2d, last pars.).
2105(d)...............................  36:124.                          Mar. 4
, 1923, ch. 283, Sec.  4, 42
                                                                          Stat.
 1510; June 26, 1946, ch. 502, 60
                                                                          Stat.
 317; July 25, 1956, ch. 721,
                                                                          Secs.
  2(b), (d), 3(c), 70 Stat. 640,
                                                                          641.
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    In subsections (a) and (c)(2), the word ``American'' is omitted as 
unnecessary.
    In subsection (a), the words ``or shall hereafter serve'' are 
omitted as obsolete.
    In subsection (b), the words ``Secretatry of Veterans Affairs'' are 
substituted for ``Department of Defense'', and the words ``the National 
Cemetery System, as described in section 2400(b) of title 38'' are 
substituted for ``cemeteries within the United States, its Territories 
and possessions'', because of section 6 of the National Cemeteries Act 
of 1973 (Public Law 93-43, 38 U.S.C. 2404 note), which transferred 
jurisdiction over and responsibility for the national cemeteries (with 
certain exceptions) from the Secretary of the Army to the Administrator 
of Veterans' Affairs.
    In subsection (c)(2), the words ``duties and powers'' are 
substituted for ``functions'' for consistency in the revised title and 
with other titles of the United States Code.


                               Amendments

    1998--Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 105-368 substituted ``National Cemetery 
Administration'' for ``National Cemetery System''.
