Title 36 — Patriotic and National ObservancesRelease 119-73

§120 National Defense Transportation Day

Title 36 › Subtitle Subtitle I— - Patriotic and National Observances and Ceremonies › Part Part A— - Observances and Ceremonies › Chapter CHAPTER 1— - PATRIOTIC AND NATIONAL OBSERVANCES › § 120

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

The President is asked to issue a proclamation each year naming the third Friday in May as National Defense Transportation Day. He should urge people in transportation communities—workers, managers, users, and investors—to hold ceremonies recognizing the system’s importance and the need to keep facilities modern for peace and national defense.

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Title 36, §120

Patriotic and National Observances — Source: USLM XML via OLRC

The President is requested to issue each year a proclamation—

(1)designating the third Friday in May as National Defense Transportation Day; and

(2)urging the people of the United States, including labor, management, users, and investors, in all communities served by the various forms of transportation to observe National Defense Transportation Day by appropriate ceremonies that will give complete recognition to the importance to each community and its people of the transportation system of the United States and the maintenance of the facilities of the system in the most modern state of adequacy to serve the needs of the United States in times of peace and in national defense.

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Historical and Revision Notes

Revised SectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 12036:160.May 16, 1957, Pub. L. 85–32, 71 Stat. 30. In clause (2), the words “any of”, “by land, by sea, and by air”, and “and every” are omitted as unnecessary.

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36 U.S.C. § 120

Title 36 — Patriotic and National Observances

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73