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[CITE: 36USC140501]

 
     TITLE 36--PATRIOTIC AND NATIONAL OBSERVANCES, CEREMONIES, AND 
                              ORGANIZATIONS
 
            Subtitle II--Patriotic and National Organizations
 
                          Part B--Organizations
 
CHAPTER 1405--MILITARY ORDER OF THE PURPLE HEART OF THE UNITED STATES OF 
                          AMERICA, INCORPORATED
 
Sec. 140501. Organization

    (a) Federal Charter.--Military Order of the Purple Heart of the 
United States of America, Incorporated (in this chapter, the 
``corporation''), is a federally chartered corporation.
    (b) Place of Incorporation and Domicile.--The corporation is 
declared to be incorporated and domiciled in the District of Columbia.
    (c) Perpetual Existence.--Except as otherwise provided, the 
corporation has perpetual existence.

(Pub. L. 105-225, Aug. 12, 1998, 112 Stat. 1381.)

                                          Historical and Revision Notes
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           Revised  Section                    Source (U.S. Code)              
 Source (Statutes at Large)
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140501................................  36:821.                          Aug. 2
6, 1958, Pub. L. 85-761, Secs.
                                                                          1, 2,
 4(1), 72 Stat. 854, 856.
                                        36:822.
                                        36:824(1).
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    This section is substituted for the source provisions for 
consistency in the revised title and to eliminate executed and 
unnecessary words.
