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.”
That sentence, in plain words
Every medal made under this law counts as a national medal. That is how one part of the law books treats it.
What this is about
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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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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Both of the section's statements: that the medals are national medals for the purposes of one chapter of title 31, and that they are numismatic items for the purposes of two sections of the same title.
Nothing. The section carries no other provision. The approval line and the legislative history the Government Publishing Office prints after the last section are held out of the indexed text.
The section works by pointing at title 31 of the United States Code. Chapter 51 and sections 5134 and 5136 of that title are not documents indexed on this site, so nothing recorded here says what treating a medal as a national medal or a numismatic item involves. A reader who wants that has to follow the citation out.
