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title: "36 U.S.C. § 30906"
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title_number: 36
title_name: "PATRIOTIC AND NATIONAL OBSERVANCES, CEREMONIES, AND ORGANIZATIONS"
chapter_number: "309"
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# 36 U.S.C. § 30906 - Restrictions

## Text

(a) Profit.— The corporation may not operate for pecuniary profit to its members.

(b) Stocks and Dividends.— The corporation may not issue stock or declare or pay a dividend.

(Pub. L. 105–225, Aug. 12, 1998, 112 Stat. 1326.)

## Notes

Historical and Revision Notes RevisedSectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 3090636:24 (words after semicolon).June 15, 1916, ch. 148, § 4 (words after semicolon), 39 Stat. 228. The words “certificates of” and “its object and purposes being solely of a benevolent character” are omitted as unnecessary.