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401

402

403

Sec. 401.1

Procedures.

Part 401-Procedures

Erection of war memorials outside continental limits of United States. 401.2 Erection of war memorials on federally owned or controlled property in United States or Territories.

: § 401.1 Erection of war memorials outside continental limits of United States. American citizens, States, municipalities, or associations desiring to erect war memorials outside the continental limits of the United States should proceed as follows:

(a) Submit general idea of the memorial to the American Battle Monuments Commission, with a request for the tentative allocation of the site desired.

(b) When site is provisionally allocated prepare and submit the design of the monument, together with the inscription, for approval. The design of the monument will then be referred, in accordance with law, by the Commission to the National Commission of Fine Arts for their approval.

(c) After a site is allocated and the design and inscription approved, the American Battle Monuments Commission will take up with the foreign governments concerned the question of securing approval to the erection of the monument.

(d) When the approval of the foreign government is obtained the Commission will cooperate, if the people concerned so desire, in obtaining of ground and the erection of the monument.

(Sec. 2, 42 Stat. 1509, as amended; 36 U. S. C. 123) [13 F. R. 6812]

§ 401.2 Erection of war memorials on federally owned or controlled property in United States or Territories. American or foreign citizens, States, municipalities, or associations desiring to erect war memorials on federally owned or controlled property in the United States or in its Territories and possessions should proceed as follows:

(a) Submit general idea of the memorial to the American Battle Monuments Commission together with statement indicating concurrence in the project by the Executive department having jurisdiction.

(b) When site is definitely assigned, submit to the American Battle Monuments Commission for approval the design of the memorial, together with the inscriptions and description of materials. The design, if approved, will then be referred, in accordance with law, by the American Battle Monuments Commission to the National Commission of Fine Arts for its approval.

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(c) If Congressional action is required to obtain grant of the site, all arrangements must be made with the appropriate members of the Congress by the sponsors of the memorial and not by the American Battle Monuments Commission.

(d) The Commission will require evidence that the maintenance of the memorial is assured in perpetuity at the expense of the sponsors and not of the Government.

(Sec. 2, 42 Stat. 1509, as amended; 36 U. S. C. 123) [13 F. R. 6812]

Part 402-Erection of War Memorials in Foreign Countries by American Citizens, States, Municipalities, or Associations

(a)

§ 402.1 Restrictions on erection. The policy of the Commission shall be to decline to approve any plans for memorials in foreign countries, proposed for erection by States, municipalities, military organizations or private individuals of the United States, with the exception of memorials that will be useful to the inhabitants of the neighborhood in which they are to be erected, such as bridges, fountains, public buildings, gateways or other public improvements.

(b) No battlefield memorial will be erected to any unit smaller than a division, unless in the opinion of the Com

mission, its services were of such a distinguished character as to warrant a separate memorial.

(c) It is the opinion of the Commission that, as a general rule, monuments should be erected to organizations rather than to the troops from a particular locality of the United States.

(Sec. 2, 42 Stat. 1509, as amended; 36 U. S. C. 123) [13 F. R. 6812]

Part 403-Erection of Memorial Monuments, Buildings and Headstones in American Cemeteries Located Outside the United States and Its Territories and Possessions

(a)

§ 403.1 Restrictions on erection. No memorial monuments or buildings shall be placed in these cemeteries unless the design and site have been approved by the American Battle Monuments Commission. No steps toward the erection of any memorial monument or building in these cemeteries should be taken until the idea has first been approved by the American Battle Monuments Commission.

(b) There shall be no variation in the types of headstones officially adopted for use in American cemeteries located outside the United States and its Territories and possessions.

(Sec. 2, 42 Stat. 1509, as amended; 36 U. S. C. 123) [13 F. R. 6812]