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title: "36 U.S.C. § 21904"
description: "Exclusive right to name"
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title_number: 36
title_name: "PATRIOTIC AND NATIONAL OBSERVANCES, CEREMONIES, AND ORGANIZATIONS"
chapter_number: "219"
chapter_name: "THE AMERICAN NATIONAL THEATER AND ACADEMY"
section: "21904"
citation: "36 U.S.C. § 21904"
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# 36 U.S.C. § 21904 - Exclusive right to name

## Text

The corporation and its State and local branches and subdivisions have the exclusive right to use the name “The American National Theater and Academy”.

(Pub. L. 105–225, Aug. 12, 1998, 112 Stat. 1299.)

## Notes

Historical and Revision Notes RevisedSectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 2190436:3305.July 5, 1935, ch. 373, § 5, 49 Stat. 458. The word “sole” is omitted as included in “exclusive”. The words “to have” are omitted as included in “to use”. The words “in carrying out its purposes” are omitted as unnecessary.