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# 36 U.S.C. § 131 - National Safe Boating Week

## Text

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.

(Pub. L. 105–225, Aug. 12, 1998, 112 Stat. 1260.)

## Notes

Historical and Revision Notes RevisedSectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 13136:161.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.