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legal/us/code/title-36/chapter-2301/section-230102.md

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+type: "LegalText"
+title: "36 U.S.C. § 230102"
+description: "Purposes"
+jurisdiction: "us"
+corpus: "united_states_code"
+kind: "code_section"
+title_number: 36
+title_name: "PATRIOTIC AND NATIONAL OBSERVANCES, CEREMONIES, AND ORGANIZATIONS"
+chapter_number: "2301"
+chapter_name: "VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED STATES"
+section: "230102"
+citation: "36 U.S.C. § 230102"
+status: "current"
+release_point: "119-100"
+release_date: "2026-06-26"
+source: "official"
+source_url: "https://uscode.house.gov/download/releasepoints/us/pl/119/100/xml_usc36@119-100.zip"
+source_identifier: "/us/usc/t36/s230102"
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+---
+
+# 36 U.S.C. § 230102 - Purposes
+
+## Text
+
+The purposes of the corporation are fraternal, patriotic, historical, charitable, and educational, and are—
+
+(1) to preserve and strengthen comradeship among its members;
+
+(2) to assist worthy comrades;
+
+(3) to perpetuate the memory and history of our dead, and to assist their surviving spouses and orphans;
+
+(4) to maintain true allegiance to the Government of the United States, and fidelity to its Constitution and laws;
+
+(5) to foster true patriotism;
+
+(6) to maintain and extend the institutions of American freedom; and
+
+(7) to preserve and defend the United States from all enemies.
+
+(Pub. L. 105–225, Aug. 12, 1998, 112 Stat. 1481; Pub. L. 107–242, § 2, Oct. 16, 2002, 116 Stat. 1497; Pub. L. 113–199, § 1(b), Dec. 4, 2014, 128 Stat. 2058.)
+
+## Notes
+
+Historical and Revision Notes RevisedSectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 23010236:113.May 28, 1936, ch. 471, § 3, 49 Stat. 1391.
+
+Editorial Notes
+
+Amendments2014—Par. (3). Pub. L. 113–199 substituted “surviving spouses” for “widows”. 2002—Pub. L. 107–242 inserted “charitable,” before “and educational,” in introductory provisions.