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title_name: "PATRIOTIC AND NATIONAL OBSERVANCES, CEREMONIES, AND ORGANIZATIONS"
chapter_number: "207"
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# 36 U.S.C. § 20702 - Organization

## Text

American Council of Learned Societies (in this chapter, the “corporation”), a nonprofit corporation incorporated in the District of Columbia, is a federally chartered corporation.

(Pub. L. 105–225, Aug. 12, 1998, 112 Stat. 1288.)

## Notes

Historical and Revision Notes RevisedSectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 2070236:1901.June 1, 1982, Pub. L. 97–192, § 1, 96 Stat. 109. This section is substituted for the sources provision for consistency in the revised title and to eliminate executed and unnecessary words.