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type: "LegalText"
title: "36 U.S.C. § 230306"
description: "Exclusive right to name, seals, emblems, and badges"
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title_number: 36
title_name: "PATRIOTIC AND NATIONAL OBSERVANCES, CEREMONIES, AND ORGANIZATIONS"
chapter_number: "2303"
chapter_name: "VETERANS OF WORLD WAR I OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, INCORPORATED"
section: "230306"
citation: "36 U.S.C. § 230306"
status: "current"
release_point: "119-100"
release_date: "2026-06-26"
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# 36 U.S.C. § 230306 - Exclusive right to name, seals, emblems, and badges

## Text

The corporation and its subordinate divisions have the exclusive right to use the name “Veterans of World War I of the United States of America, Incorporated”. The corporation has the exclusive right to use, and to allow others to use, seals, emblems, and badges the corporation adopts.

(Pub. L. 105–225, Aug. 12, 1998, 112 Stat. 1484.)

## Notes

Historical and Revision Notes RevisedSectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 23030636:777.July 18, 1958, Pub. L. 85–530, § 17, 72 Stat. 374. The words “sole”, “or refuse”, and “and such emblems, seals, and badges as have heretofore been used by the Ohio corporation described in section 778 of this title” are omitted as unnecessary. The words “and the right to which may be lawfully transferred to the corporation” are omitted as executed.