36 USC § 131 - National Safe Boating Week

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title: "36 USC § 131 - National Safe Boating Week"
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title_name: "PATRIOTIC AND NATIONAL OBSERVANCES, CEREMONIES, AND ORGANIZATIONS"
section_number: "131"
section_name: "National Safe Boating Week"
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source_credit: "(Pub. L. 105–225, Aug. 12, 1998, 112 Stat. 1260.)"
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# § 131. National Safe Boating Week

The President is requested to issue each year a proclamation designating the 7-day period ending on the last Friday before Memorial Day as National Safe Boating Week.

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**Source Credit**: (Pub. L. 105–225, Aug. 12, 1998, 112 Stat. 1260.)

| RevisedSection | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 131 | 36:161. | June 4, 1958, Pub. L. 85–445, 72 Stat. 179; Oct. 3, 1980, Pub. L. 96–376, § 9, 94 Stat. 1510; Dec. 20, 1993, Pub. L. 103–236, title III, § 318(a), 107 Stat. 2427. |