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title: "36 U.S.C. § 22505"
description: "Exclusive right to name"
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title_number: 36
title_name: "PATRIOTIC AND NATIONAL OBSERVANCES, CEREMONIES, AND ORGANIZATIONS"
chapter_number: "225"
chapter_name: "AMERICAN WAR MOTHERS"
section: "22505"
citation: "36 U.S.C. § 22505"
status: "current"
release_point: "119-100"
release_date: "2026-06-26"
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# 36 U.S.C. § 22505 - Exclusive right to name

## Text

The corporation and its State, territorial, and local subdivisions have the exclusive right to use the name “American War Mothers”.

(Pub. L. 105–225, Aug. 12, 1998, 112 Stat. 1305.)

## Notes

Historical and Revision Notes RevisedSectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 2250536:100.Feb. 24, 1925, ch. 303, § 10, 43 Stat. 968. The words “to have” are omitted as included in “to use”. The words “in carrying out its business purposes” are omitted as unnecessary.