Volume 53
Public Law 76–263
To provide national flags for the burial of honorably discharged former service men and women.
Approved July 11, 1939
Statutory text
AN ACT
To provide national flags for the burial of honorably discharged former service men and women.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That paragraph I,
National flags for burial of honorably discharged veterans, etc.
38 U. S. C. ch. 12, appendix.
Veterans Regulations Numbered 9 (a), as amended (U. S. C., 1934 edition, title 38, ch. 12, appendix), be amended to read as follows:
“I.
Where an honorably discharged veteran of any war, or a person honorably discharged from the United States Army, Navy, Marine Corps, or Coast Guard after serving at least one enlistment or for disability incurred in line of duty, dies after discharge, a flag to drape the casket shall be furnished in all cases; such flag to be given to the next of kin after burial of the veteran.”: Provided, That this amendment
Proviso.
Effective date.
shall become effective on the date of enactment hereof.
Approved, July 11, 1939.