POW/MIA Memorial Flag Act of 2002

POW/MIA Memorial Flag Act of 2002 - Includes the World War II Memorial among the locations where the National League of Families POW/MIA flag is required to be displayed.

Requires such flag to be displayed at such Memorial, as well as the Korean War Veterans Memorial and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, on any day on which the United States flag is displayed.

[107th Congress Public Law 323]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]


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Public Law 107-323
107th Congress

                                 An Act


 
To require the display of the POW/MIA flag at the World War II Memorial, 
       the Korean War Veterans Memorial, and the Vietnam Veterans 
             Memorial. <<NOTE: Dec. 4, 2002 -  [S. 1226]>> 

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, <<NOTE: POW/MIA Memorial 
Flag Act of 2002.>> 

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. <<NOTE: 36 USC 101 note.>> 

    This Act may be cited as the ``POW/MIA Memorial Flag Act of 2002''.
SEC. 2. DISPLAY OF POW/MIA FLAG AT WORLD WAR II MEMORIAL, KOREAN 
                    WAR MEMORIAL, AND VIETNAM VETERANS MEMORIAL.

    (a) Requirement for Display.--Subsection (d)(3) of section 902 of 
title 36, United States Code, is amended by striking ``The Korean War 
Veterans Memorial and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial'' and inserting 
``The World War II Memorial, the Korean War Veterans Memorial, and the 
Vietnam Veterans Memorial''.
    (b) Days for Display.--Subsection (c)(2) of that section is 
amended--
            (1) by redesignating subparagraphs (A) and (B) as 
        subparagraphs (B) and (C), respectively; and
            (2) by inserting before subparagraph (B), as so 
        redesignated, the following new subparagraph (A):
            ``(A) in the case of display at the World War II Memorial, 
        Korean War Veterans Memorial, and Vietnam Veterans Memorial 
        (required by subsection (d)(3) of this section), any day on 
        which the United States flag is displayed;''.

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    (c) Display <<NOTE: 36 USC 902 note.>>  on Existing Flagpole.--No 
element of the United States Government may construe the amendments made 
by this section as requiring the acquisition of erection of a new or 
additional flagpole for purposes of the display of the POW/MIA flag.

    Approved December 4, 2002.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY--S. 1226:
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CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 148 (2002):
            Oct. 2, considered and passed Senate.
            Nov. 14, considered and passed House.

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