---
kind: "section"
citation: "31 U.S.C. § 5155"
title: "31"
title_heading: "Money and Finance"
number: "5155"
heading: "Providing engraved plates of portraits of deceased members of Congress"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/31/5155"
units:
  - "Subtitle IV — Money"
  - "Chapter 51 — Coins and Currency"
  - "Subchapter V — Miscellaneous"
---

# §5155. Providing engraved plates of portraits of deceased members of Congress


On conditions the Secretary of the Treasury decides, the Secretary may send an engraved plate of a portrait of a deceased Senator or Representative to an heir or legal representative of such a Senator or Representative.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 97–258, Sept. 13, 1982, 96 Stat. 993.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 5155 | 31:175. | July 1, 1916, ch. 209, § 1(3d par. on p. 275), 39 Stat. 275. |

The words “terms and” are omitted as being included in “conditions”. The words “that have been or may be made” are omitted as unnecessary.