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[CITE: 38USC531]

 
                      TITLE 38--VETERANS' BENEFITS
 
                       PART I--GENERAL PROVISIONS
 
            CHAPTER 5--AUTHORITY AND DUTIES OF THE SECRETARY
 
                   SUBCHAPTER II--SPECIFIED FUNCTIONS
 
Sec. 531. Requirement relating to naming of Department property

    Except as expressly provided by law, a facility, structure, or real 
property of the Department, and a major portion (such as a wing or 
floor) of any such facility, structure, or real property, may be named 
only for the geographic area in which the facility, structure, or real 
property is located.

(Added Pub. L. 105-368, title X, Sec. 1001(a)(1), Nov. 11, 1998, 112 
Stat. 3363.)


                             Effective Date

    Pub. L. 105-368, title X, Sec. 1001(b), Nov. 11, 1998, 112 Stat. 
3363, provided that: ``Section 531 of title 38, United States Code, as 
added by subsection (a)(1), shall apply with respect to the assignment 
or designation of the name of a facility, structure, or real property of 
the Department of Veterans Affairs (or of a major portion thereof) after 
the date of the enactment of this Act [Nov. 11, 1998].''
