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title_name: "PATRIOTIC AND NATIONAL OBSERVANCES, CEREMONIES, AND ORGANIZATIONS"
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# 36 U.S.C. § 20501 - Organization

## Text

American Chemical Society (in this chapter, the “corporation”) is a federally chartered corporation.

(Pub. L. 105–225, Aug. 12, 1998, 112 Stat. 1287.)

## Notes

Historical and Revision Notes RevisedSectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 2050136:3201.Aug. 25, 1937, ch. 762, §§ 1, 7, 50 Stat. 798, 799.  36:3207.  This section is substituted for the source provision for consistency in the revised title and to eliminate executed and unnecessary words. The text of 36:3207 is omitted as executed and obsolete.