[105th Congress Public Law 176]
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Public Law 105-176
105th Congress

                                 An Act


 
   To amend chapter 51 of title 31, United States Code, to allow the 
    Secretary of the Treasury greater discretion with regard to the 
 placement of the required inscriptions on quarter dollars issued under 
the 50 States Commemorative Coin Program. <<NOTE: May 29, 1998 -  [H.R. 
                                3301]>> 

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 5112(l)(1) 
of title 31, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the 
following new subparagraph:
                    ``(C) Flexibility with regard to placement of 
                inscriptions.--Notwithstanding subsection (d)(1), the 
                Secretary may select a design for quarter dollars issued 
                during the 10-year period referred to in subparagraph 
                (A) in which--
                          ``(i) the inscription described in the second 
                      sentence of subsection (d)(1) appears on the 
                      reverse side of any such quarter dollars; and
                          ``(ii) any inscription described in the third 
                      sentence of subsection (d)(1) or the designation 
                      of the value of the coin appears on the obverse 
                      side of any such quarter dollars.''.

    Approved May 29, 1998.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY--H.R. 3301:
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CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 144 (1998):
            Mar. 27, considered and passed House.
            May 19, considered and passed Senate.

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