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legal/us/code/title-36/chapter-2305/section-230503.md

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+type: "LegalText"
+title: "36 U.S.C. § 230503"
+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: "2305"
+chapter_name: "VIETNAM VETERANS OF AMERICA, INC."
+section: "230503"
+citation: "36 U.S.C. § 230503"
+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/s230503"
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+retrieved_at: "2026-07-04"
+confidence: "official"
+tags: ["legal", "us-code"]
+---
+
+# 36 U.S.C. § 230503 - Purposes
+
+## Text
+
+The purposes of the corporation are as provided in its articles of incorporation, constitution, and bylaws and include a commitment—
+
+(1) to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States;
+
+(2) to foster improvement of the condition of Vietnam-era veterans;
+
+(3) to promote the social welfare (including educational, economic, social, physical, and cultural improvement) of Vietnam-era veterans and other veterans in the United States by encouraging their growth, development, readjustment, self-respect, self-confidence, and usefulness;
+
+(4) to improve conditions for Vietnam-era veterans and develop channels of communication to assist Vietnam-era veterans;
+
+(5) to conduct and publish research, on a nonpartisan basis, pertaining to—
+
+(A) the relationship between Vietnam-era veterans and American society;
+
+(B) the Vietnam war experience;
+
+(C) the role of the United States in securing peaceful coexistence for the world community; and
+
+(D) other matters that affect the educational, economic, social, physical, or cultural welfare of Vietnam-era veterans, other veterans, and their families;
+
+(6) to assist disabled Vietnam-era veterans and other veterans in need of assistance and the dependents and survivors of those veterans; and
+
+(7) to consecrate the efforts of the members of the corporation, and Vietnam-era veterans generally, to mutual helpfulness and service to their country.
+
+(Pub. L. 105–225, Aug. 12, 1998, 112 Stat. 1486.)
+
+## Notes
+
+Historical and Revision Notes RevisedSectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 23050336:3803.May 23, 1986, Pub. L. 99–318, § 3, 100 Stat. 474. Before clause (1), the word “objects” is omitted as included in “purposes”.