---
kind: "section"
citation: "32 C.F.R. § 553.26"
title: "32"
number: "553.26"
heading: "Design of Government-furnished headstones, niche covers, and memorial markers."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/32/553.26"
---

# §553.26. Design of Government-furnished headstones, niche covers, and memorial markers.

- (a) Headstones and memorial markers shall be white marble in an upright slab design. Flat-type granite markers may be used, at the Executive Director's discretion, when the terrain or other obstruction precludes use of an upright marble headstone or memorial marker.
- (b) Niche covers shall be white marble.
- (c) The Executive Director shall approve the design of headstones and memorial markers erected for group burials, consistent with the policies of the Secretary of Veterans Affairs.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 10 U.S.C. 985, 1128, 1481, 1482, 3013, 4721-4726; 24 U.S.C. 295a, 412; 38 U.S.C. 2402 note, 2409-2411, 2413; 40 U.S.C. 9102; and Pub. L. 93-43, 87 Stat. 75.

### Source

Source: 81 FR 65877, Sept. 26, 2016, unless otherwise noted.