42 U.S.C. § 1921 — Establishment of medals for bravery; rules and regulations; conditions governing awards

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The Department of Justice must create rules for a bravery medal. The medal goes to a United States child age 18 or younger who shows exceptional courage while trying to save a person whose life is in immediate danger.

The Department of Justice is authorized and directed to issue rules establishing a medal and a method for choosing its recipient. The rules must provide for an award to a child who lives in the United States, is 18 years old or younger, and—without regard to the child’s own safety—shows exceptional courage, extraordinary decision-making, presence of mind, and unusual speed of action while trying to save, or successfully saving, the life or lives of a person or persons whose life or lives were in actual and immediate danger.

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The Department of Justice be, and it is, authorized and directed to promulgate rules and regulations establishing a medal; the method of selecting such recipient thereof so that an award shall be made to any child residing in the United States, who is eighteen years old or under, who has exhibited exceptional courage, extraordinary decision, presence of mind, and unusual swiftness of action, regardless of his or her own personal safety, in an effort to save or successfully saving the life or lives of any person or persons whose life or lives were in actual imminent danger.

Source credit: (Aug. 3, 1950, ch. 520, § 1, 64 Stat. 397.)

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1950Enacted · Act of Aug. 3, 1950, ch. 520 · 64 Stat. 397

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