32 CFR 553.6 - Standards for managing Army National Military Cemeteries.

Regulations last checked for updates: Nov 22, 2024

Title 32 - National Defense last revised: Nov 18, 2024

View all text of Subpart A [§ 553.1 - § 553.35]

§ 553.6 - Standards for managing Army National Military Cemeteries.

(a) The Executive Director is responsible for establishing and maintaining cemetery layout plans, including plans setting forth sections with gravesites, memorial areas with markers, and columbaria with niches, and landscape planting plans.

(b) New sections or areas may be opened and prepared for interments or for installing memorial markers only with the approval of the Executive Director.

authority: 10 U.S.C. 985,1128,1481,1482,3013,4721; 24 U.S.C. 295a,412; 38 U.S.C. 2402 note, 2409-2411, 2413; 40 U.S.C. 9102; and Pub. L. 93-43, 87 Stat. 75

source: 81 FR 65877, Sept. 26, 2016, unless otherwise noted.

cite as: 32 CFR 553.6