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[CITE: 10USC7881]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                    Subtitle C--Navy and Marine Corps
 
                     PART IV--GENERAL ADMINISTRATION
 
                     CHAPTER 663--NAMES AND INSIGNIA
 
Sec. 7881. Unauthorized use of Marine Corps insignia

    (a) The seal, emblem, and initials of the United States Marine Corps 
shall be deemed to be insignia of the United States.
    (b) No person may, except with the written permission of the 
Secretary of the Navy, use or imitate the seal, emblem, name, or 
initials of the United States Marine Corps in connection with any 
promotion, goods, services, or commercial activity in a manner 
reasonably tending to suggest that such use is approved, endorsed, or 
authorized by the Marine Corps or any other component of the Department 
of Defense.
    (c) Whenever it appears to the Attorney General of the United States 
that any person is engaged or is about to engage in an act or practice 
which constitutes or will constitute conduct prohibited by subsection 
(b), the Attorney General may initiate a civil proceeding in a district 
court of the United States to enjoin such act or practice. Such court 
may, at any time before final determination, enter such restraining 
orders or prohibitions, or take such other action as is warranted, to 
prevent injury to the United States or to any person or class of persons 
for whose protection the action is brought.

(Added Pub. L. 98-525, title XV, Sec. 1532(a)(1), Oct. 19, 1984, 98 
Stat. 2631.)


                            Savings Provision

    Section 1532(b) of Pub. L. 98-525 provided that: ``The amendments 
made by subsection (a) [enacting this chapter] shall not affect rights 
that vested before the date of the enactment of this Act [Oct. 19, 
1984].''
