1997 U.S. Code
Title 36 - PATRIOTIC SOCIETIES AND OBSERVANCES
CHAPTER 84 - NATIONAL FALLEN FIREFIGHTERS FOUNDATION
Sec. 5201 - Establishment and purposes of Foundation

There is established the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation (hereafter in this chapter referred to as the “Foundation”). The Foundation is a charitable and nonprofit corporation to be organized under the laws of the State of Maryland and is not an agency or establishment of the United States.

The purposes of the Foundation are—

(1) primarily to encourage, accept, and administer private gifts of property for the benefit of the National Fallen Firefighters’ Memorial and the annual memorial service associated with it;

(2) to provide financial assistance to families of fallen firefighters for transportation to and lodging at non-Federal facilities during the annual memorial service;

(3) to assist State and local efforts to recognize firefighters who die in the line of duty; and

(4) to provide scholarships and other financial assistance for educational purposes and job training for the spouses and children of fallen firefighters.

(Pub. L. 102–522, title II, §202, Oct. 26, 1992, 106 Stat. 3417.)

Section 201 of title II of Pub. L. 102–522 provided that: “This title [enacting this chapter and section 671a of Title 29, Labor] may be cited as the ‘National Fallen Firefighters Foundation Act’.”

This section is referred to in sections 5203, 5206 of this title.