{"identifier":"/us/usc/t42/s15201","title_num":"42","num":"§ 15201.","heading":"Authorization of Medal","status":null,"guid":"id7b963fae-4aa7-11eb-94f5-9ff2c44f6f3c","source_credit":"(Pub. L. 107–12, § 2, May 30, 2001, 115 Stat. 20.)","seq_in_title":7296,"parent_identifier":"/us/usc/t42/ch145","ancestors":[{"identifier":"/us/usc/t42","level":"title","num":"Title 42—","heading":"THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE","status":null,"is_section":false},{"identifier":"/us/usc/t42/ch145","level":"chapter","num":"CHAPTER 145—","heading":"PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICER MEDAL OF VALOR AND TRIBUTES","status":null,"is_section":false}],"xml":"<section xmlns=\"http://xml.house.gov/schemas/uslm/1.0\" xmlns:xsi=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance\" xmlns:dc=\"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/\" xmlns:dcterms=\"http://purl.org/dc/terms/\" style=\"-uslm-lc:I80\" id=\"id49b86086-3271-11e3-ab2f-8f7fedb88afd\" identifier=\"/us/usc/t42/s15201\"><num value=\"15201\">§ 15201.</num><heading> Authorization of Medal</heading><content>\n<p style=\"-uslm-lc:I11\" class=\"indent0\">After <date date=\"2001-09-01\">September 1, 2001</date>, the President may award, and present in the name of Congress, a Medal of Valor of appropriate design, with ribbons and appurtenances, to a public safety officer who is cited by the Attorney General, upon the recommendation of the Medal of Valor Review Board, for extraordinary valor above and beyond the call of duty. The Public Safety Medal of Valor shall be the highest national award for valor by a public safety officer.</p>\n</content><sourceCredit id=\"id49b86087-3271-11e3-ab2f-8f7fedb88afd\">(<ref href=\"/us/pl/107/12/s2\">Pub. L. 107–12, § 2</ref>, <date date=\"2001-05-30\">May 30, 2001</date>, <ref href=\"/us/stat/115/20\">115 Stat. 20</ref>.)</sourceCredit>\n<notes type=\"uscNote\" id=\"id49b86088-3271-11e3-ab2f-8f7fedb88afd\">\n<note style=\"-uslm-lc:I74\" topic=\"shortTitle\" id=\"id49b86089-3271-11e3-ab2f-8f7fedb88afd\"><heading class=\"centered smallCaps\">Short Title</heading><p><ref href=\"/us/pl/107/12/s1\">Pub. L. 107–12, § 1</ref>, <date date=\"2001-05-30\">May 30, 2001</date>, <ref href=\"/us/stat/115/20\">115 Stat. 20</ref>, provided that: <quotedContent origin=\"/us/pl/107/12/s1\">“This Act [enacting this chapter and amending <ref href=\"/us/usc/t15/s2214\">section 2214 of Title 15</ref>, Commerce and Trade] may be cited as the ‘Public Safety Officer Medal of Valor Act of 2001’.”</quotedContent>\n</p>\n</note>\n</notes>\n</section>","provision":null,"duplicates":[],"release":{"label":"116-252","currency_date":"2020-12-22","congress":116,"law_num":252,"excluded_laws":[],"update_num":null,"seq":222,"is_partial":false,"caveat":null,"titles_affected":["18","20","31","34","40","42"],"ingested_titles":[]},"served_from":{"label":"116-252","currency_date":"2020-12-22","congress":116,"law_num":252,"excluded_laws":[],"update_num":null,"seq":222,"is_partial":false,"caveat":null,"titles_affected":["18","20","31","34","40","42"],"ingested_titles":[]},"content_first_seen":{"label":"113-44","currency_date":"2013-10-10","congress":113,"law_num":44,"excluded_laws":[],"update_num":null,"seq":3,"is_partial":false,"caveat":null,"titles_affected":["02","08","11a","16","21","22","30","38","42","50"],"ingested_titles":[]},"is_exact":true,"note":null}