The medals are numismatic items under two sections 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 numismatic items under two sections of title 31
The document says “shall”Who acts: CongressHow: statuteSec. 5 in the PDF
What the document says
“For purposes of sections 5134 and 5136 of title 31, United States Code, all medals struck under this Act shall be considered to be numismatic items.”
Subsection (b) adds a second classification, narrower than the first: for the purposes of sections 5134 and 5136 of title 31, United States Code, all medals struck under the Act are numismatic items. Those two sections are not indexed here, so this record names them and stops.
What the document actually says
“For purposes of sections 5134 and 5136 of title 31, United States Code, all medals struck under this Act shall be considered to be numismatic items.”
That sentence, in plain words
Two parts of the law books deal with coin collector items. Every medal made under this law counts as one.
What this is about
A numismatic item is a coin or medal made for collectors. The two parts named are sections 5134 and 5136. This law does not say what they hold.
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