The medals are national medals under chapter 51 of title 31
To award 3 Congressional Gold Medals to the members of the 1980 U.S. Olympic Men's Ice Hockey Team, in recognition of their extraordinary achievement at the 1980 Winter Olympics where, being comprised of amateur collegiate players, they defeated the dominant Soviet hockey team in the historic “Miracle on Ice”, revitalizing American morale at the height of the Cold War, inspiring generations and transforming the sport of hockey in the United States, section 5, Sec. 5.
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The medals are national medals under chapter 51 of title 31
The document says “means”Who acts: CongressHow: statuteSec. 5 in the PDF
What the document says
“Medals struck under this Act are national medals for purposes of chapter 51 of title 31, United States Code.”
Subsection (a) fixes the legal class of every medal struck under the Act, the gold ones and the bronze duplicates alike. They are national medals for the purposes of chapter 51 of title 31, United States Code. That chapter is not indexed here, so this record names it and stops.
What the document actually says
“Medals struck under this Act are national medals for purposes of chapter 51 of title 31, United States Code.”
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Every medal made under this law counts as a national medal. That is how one part of the law books treats it.
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The law books here are title 31 of the United States Code. This law does not say what that chapter holds. It just puts the medals under it.
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