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title: "36 U.S.C. § 152907"
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title_number: 36
title_name: "PATRIOTIC AND NATIONAL OBSERVANCES, CEREMONIES, AND ORGANIZATIONS"
chapter_number: "1529"
chapter_name: "NATIONAL SOCIETY, DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN COLONISTS"
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# 36 U.S.C. § 152907 - Exclusive right to name, seals, emblems, and badges

## Text

The corporation has the exclusive right to use the name “National Society, Daughters of the American Colonists” and seals, emblems, and badges the corporation adopts. This section does not affect any vested rights.

(Pub. L. 105–225, Aug. 12, 1998, 112 Stat. 1421.)

## Notes

Historical and Revision Notes RevisedSectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 15290736:2909.Oct. 30, 1984, Pub. L. 98–561, § 9, 98 Stat. 2911. The words “established or”, “sole and”, “to have and”, “in carrying out its purposes”, and “or used” are omitted as unnecessary.