---
kind: "section"
citation: "36 U.S.C. § 131"
title: "36"
title_heading: "Patriotic and National Observances, Ceremonies, and Organizations"
number: "131"
heading: "National Safe Boating Week"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/36/131"
units:
  - "Subtitle I — Patriotic and National Observances and Ceremonies"
  - "Part A — Observances and Ceremonies"
  - "Chapter 1 — Patriotic and National Observances"
---

# §131. National Safe Boating Week


The President is requested to issue each year a proclamation designating the 7-day period ending on the last Friday before Memorial Day as National Safe Boating Week.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 105–225, Aug. 12, 1998, 112 Stat. 1260.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised<br>Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 131 | 36:161. | June 4, 1958, Pub. L. 85–445, 72 Stat. 179; Oct. 3, 1980, Pub. L. 96–376, § 9, 94 Stat. 1510; Dec. 20, 1993, Pub. L. 103–236, title III, § 318(a), 107 Stat. 2427. |