Volume 72
Public Law 85–445
To authorize the President to proclaim annually the week which includes July 4 as “National Safe Boating Week”.
Approved June 4, 1958
Statutory text
JOINT RESOLUTION
To authorize the President to proclaim annually the week which includes July 4 as “National Safe Boating Week”.
Whereas our people in increasing numbers are taking part in boating activities on the waters of our Nation, with more than twenty million expected to participate during 1958; and
Whereas safety is essential for the full enjoyment of boating; and Whereas many lives can be spared and injuries and property damage avoided by safe boating practices; and
Whereas it is proper and fitting that national attention should be focused on the need for safe boating practices: Therefore be it
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United, States of America in Congress assembled,
That the President of the United States is authorized and requested to proclaim annually the week which includes July 4 as “National Safe Boating Week”.
Approved June 4, 1958.