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title: "36 U.S.C. § 150301"
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title_number: 36
title_name: "PATRIOTIC AND NATIONAL OBSERVANCES, CEREMONIES, AND ORGANIZATIONS"
chapter_number: "1503"
chapter_name: "NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES"
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# 36 U.S.C. § 150301 - Federal charter

## Text

National Academy of Sciences (in this chapter, the “corporation”) is a federally chartered corporation.

(Pub. L. 105–225, Aug. 12, 1998, 112 Stat. 1388.)

## Notes

Historical and Revision Notes RevisedSectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 15030136:251.Mar. 3, 1863, ch. 111, § 1, 12 Stat. 806. This section is substituted for the source provision for consistency in the revised title and to eliminate executed and unnecessary words.