Volume 106 · 1991
Public Law 102–407
To authorize the construction of a monument in the District of Columbia or its environs to honor Thomas Paine, and for other purposes.
Approved October 13, 1992
Statutory text
An Act
To authorize the construction of a monument in the District of Columbia or its environs to honor Thomas Paine, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. AUTHORIZATION OF MEMORIAL.
Authorization.—
The Thomas Paine National Historical Association U.S.A Memorial Foundation is authorized to construct in the District of Columbia or its environs an appropriate monument to honor the United States patriot, Thomas Paine.
Compliance With Standards For Commemorative Works.—
The design, location, and construction of the monument authorized by subsection (a) shall be subject to the Act entitled “An Act to provide standards for placement of commemorative works on certain Federal lands in the District of Columbia and its environs, and for other purposes”, approved November 14, 1986 (40 U.S.C. 1001, et seq.).
SEC. 2. PAYMENT OF EXPENSES.
The United States shall not pay any expense of the establishment of the memorial.
SEC. 3. EXPIRATION OF AUTHORITY.
If the authority to establish the memorial under this resolution shall expire, in accordance with 40 U.S.C. 1001, section 10(b), all unexpended funds collected by the Thomas Paine National Historical Association U.S.A Memorial Foundation through charitable solicitation shall be transferred to the National Park Service for the express purpose of maintaining existing national memorials or returned to the donors.
Approved October 13, 1992.