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title: "36 U.S.C. § 50305"
description: "Exclusive right to name"
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title_number: 36
title_name: "PATRIOTIC AND NATIONAL OBSERVANCES, CEREMONIES, AND ORGANIZATIONS"
chapter_number: "503"
chapter_name: "DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS"
section: "50305"
citation: "36 U.S.C. § 50305"
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# 36 U.S.C. § 50305 - Exclusive right to name

## Text

The corporation and its State and local subdivisions have the exclusive right to use the name “Disabled American Veterans”.

(Pub. L. 105–225, Aug. 12, 1998, 112 Stat. 1344.)

## Notes

Historical and Revision Notes RevisedSectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 5030536:90h.June 17, 1932, ch. 268, § 8, 47 Stat. 321; July 15, 1942, ch. 505, § 5, 56 Stat. 660. The words “sole”, “have and”, and “in carrying out its purposes” are omitted as unnecessary.