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title: "36 U.S.C. § 70701"
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title_number: 36
title_name: "PATRIOTIC AND NATIONAL OBSERVANCES, CEREMONIES, AND ORGANIZATIONS"
chapter_number: "707"
chapter_name: "FREDERICK DOUGLASS MEMORIAL AND HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION"
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# 36 U.S.C. § 70701 - Organization

## Text

(a) Federal Charter.— Frederick Douglass Memorial and Historical Association (in this chapter, the “corporation”) is a body corporate and politic in the District of Columbia.

(b) Perpetual Existence.— Except as otherwise provided, the corporation has perpetual existence.

(Pub. L. 105–225, Aug. 12, 1998, 112 Stat. 1354.)

## Notes

Historical and Revision Notes RevisedSectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 7070136:4401 (words before “for the following objects and purposes”).June 6, 1900, ch. 806, §§ 1 (words before “for the following objects and purposes”), 3, 31 Stat. 662, 663.  36:4403.  This section is substituted for the source provisions for consistency in the revised title and to eliminate executed and unnecessary words. The text of 36:4403 is omitted as executed and obsolete.