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title: "36 U.S.C. § 200105"
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title_number: 36
title_name: "PATRIOTIC AND NATIONAL OBSERVANCES, CEREMONIES, AND ORGANIZATIONS"
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# 36 U.S.C. § 200105 - Principal office

## Text

The principal office of the corporation shall be located in the District of Columbia. However, annual meetings may be held wherever the corporation decides.

(Pub. L. 105–225, Aug. 12, 1998, 112 Stat. 1452.)

## Notes

Historical and Revision Notes RevisedSectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 20010536:5401 (last sentence words before proviso).Mar. 3, 1901, ch. 876, § 1 (last sentence words before proviso), 31 Stat. 1453; June 29, 1938, ch. 796, 52 Stat. 1226. The words “wherever the corporation decides” are substituted for “such other places as the incorporators or their successors shall determine” for consistency in the revised title.