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title_name: "PATRIOTIC AND NATIONAL OBSERVANCES, CEREMONIES, AND ORGANIZATIONS"
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# 36 U.S.C. § 40305 - Restrictions

## Text

The corporation may not engage in business for profit or issue stock.

(Pub. L. 105–225, Aug. 12, 1998, 112 Stat. 1332.)

## Notes

Historical and Revision Notes RevisedSectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 4030536:204.July 1, 1946, ch. 527, § 4, 60 Stat. 347. This section is substituted for 36:204(a) to eliminate unnecessary words. The text of 36:204(b) is omitted as executed and obsolete.