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[CITE: 42USC1921]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                        CHAPTER 18--YOUTH MEDALS
 
Sec. 1921. Establishment of medals for bravery; rules and 
        regulations; conditions governing awards
        
    The Department of justice be, and it is, authorized and directed to 
promulgate rules and regulations establishing a medal; the method of 
selecting such recipient thereof so that an award shall be made to any 
child residing in the United States, who is eighteen years old or under, 
who has exhibited exceptional courage, extraordinary decision, presence 
of mind, and unusual swiftness of action, regardless of his or her own 
personal safety, in an effort to save or successfully saving the life or 
lives of any person or persons whose life or lives were in actual 
imminent danger.

(Aug. 3, 1950, ch. 520, Sec. 1, 64 Stat. 397.)

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 1923 of this title.
