Title 36, Patriotic and National ObservancesRelease 119-102
§120 National Defense Transportation Day
Title 36 › Subtitle I — Patriotic and National Observances and Ceremonies › Part A — Observances and Ceremonies › CHAPTER 1 — PATRIOTIC AND NATIONAL OBSERVANCES › § 120
Summary
Each year, the President is asked to proclaim the third Friday in May as National Defense Transportation Day. The proclamation asks labor, management, users, and investors in communities served by transportation to hold ceremonies that honor the system and keep its 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
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102