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title: "36 U.S.C. § 230105"
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title_number: 36
title_name: "PATRIOTIC AND NATIONAL OBSERVANCES, CEREMONIES, AND ORGANIZATIONS"
chapter_number: "2301"
chapter_name: "VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED STATES"
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citation: "36 U.S.C. § 230105"
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# 36 U.S.C. § 230105 - Exclusive right to name, seal, emblems, and badges

## Text

The corporation has the exclusive right to use the name “Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States” and its corporate seal and to manufacture and use emblems and badges the corporation adopts.

(Pub. L. 105–225, Aug. 12, 1998, 112 Stat. 1482.)

## Notes

Historical and Revision Notes RevisedSectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 23010536:114 (words between 4th and 5th semicolons).May 28, 1936, ch. 471, §§ 4 (words between 4th and 5th semicolons), 7, 49 Stat. 1391.  36:117.  The words “sole”, “to have and”, and “in carrying out its purposes” in 36:117 are omitted as unnecessary. The words “as may be deemed necessary in the fulfillment of the purposes of the corporation” are omitted as unnecessary.