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title: "36 U.S.C. § 150507"
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title_number: 36
title_name: "PATRIOTIC AND NATIONAL OBSERVANCES, CEREMONIES, AND ORGANIZATIONS"
chapter_number: "1505"
chapter_name: "NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF STATE SOCIETIES, WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA"
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citation: "36 U.S.C. § 150507"
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# 36 U.S.C. § 150507 - Exclusive right to name, seals, emblems, and badges

## Text

The corporation has the exclusive right to use the name “National Conference of State Societies, Washington, District of Columbia” and seals, emblems, and badges the corporation adopts.

(Pub. L. 105–225, Aug. 12, 1998, 112 Stat. 1390.)

## Notes

Historical and Revision Notes RevisedSectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 15050736:418.Apr. 3, 1952, ch. 131, § 18, 66 Stat. 41; July 5, 1968, Pub. L. 90–382, (2), 82 Stat. 292. The words “in carrying out its purposes” are omitted as unnecessary.