10 U.S.C. § 7724 — Executive Director
submitted 15 years ago by Pub. L. 112-81 to r/title-10-ARMED-FORCES · 246 words · no verdicts yet
This section creates an Executive Director position for the Army National Military Cemeteries and lists the Director’s responsibilities. Those responsibilities cover cemetery control, gravesite accountability, facilities, ceremonies, memorials, planning, funding, eligibility exceptions, and superintendents.
(a) Appointment. (1) The Army* National Military Cemeteries must have an Executive Director who meets professional qualifications set by the Army Secretary. (2) The Director reports directly to the Secretary.
(b) Responsibilities. The Director must (1) control every aspect of the Cemeteries; (2) maintain full accountability for all gravesites and inurnment niches; (3) oversee construction, operation, maintenance, and repair of buildings, structures, and utilities; (4) acquire and maintain real property and interests in it; (5) plan and conduct private funeral and memorial ceremonies and public ceremonies as directed; (6) create, issue, administer, and oversee policies and address memorial and monument proposals; (7) create and carry out an Arlington master plan addressing at least capacity, visitors, operations and maintenance, capital needs, preservation of special features, and other appropriate matters; (8) oversee programming, planning, budgeting, and spending of authorized and appropriated funds; (9) recommend action on eligibility-policy exception requests; and (10) supervise the Cemetery superintendents.
There shall be an Executive Director of the Army* National Military Cemeteries who shall meet such professional qualifications as may be established by the Secretary of the Army.
The Executive Director reports directly to the Secretary.
The Executive Director is responsible for the following:
Exercising authority, direction and control over all aspects of the Cemeteries.
Establishing and maintaining full accountability for all gravesites and inurnment niches in the Cemeteries.
Oversight of the construction, operation and maintenance, and repair of the buildings, structures, and utilities of the Cemeteries.
Acquisition and maintenance of real property and interests in real property for the Cemeteries.
Planning and conducting private ceremonies at the Cemeteries, including funeral and memorial services for interment and inurnment, and planning and conducting public ceremonies, as directed by the Secretary of the Army.
Formulating, promulgating, administering, and overseeing policies and addressing proposals for the placement of memorials and monuments in the Cemeteries.
Formulating and implementing a master plan for Arlington National Cemetery that, at a minimum, addresses interment and inurnment capacity, visitor accommodation, operation and maintenance, capital requirements, preservation of the cemetery’s special features, and other matters the Executive Director considers appropriate.
Overseeing the programming, planning, budgeting, and execution of funds authorized and appropriated for the Cemeteries.
Providing recommendations regarding any request for an exception to interment and inurnment eligibility policy.
Supervising the superintendents of the Cemeteries.
Source credit: (Added Pub. L. 112–81, div. A, title V, § 591(a)(1), Dec. 31, 2011, 125 Stat. 1440, § 4724; renumbered § 7724, Pub. L. 115–232, div. A, title VIII, § 808(d), Aug. 13, 2018, 132 Stat. 1839.)
- 2011Enacted · Pub. L. 112-81 · 125 Stat. 1440
- 2018Amended · Pub. L. 115-232 · 132 Stat. 1839
A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by Pub. L. 112-81 on 2011-12-31.
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