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[CITE: 36USC153705]

 
     TITLE 36--PATRIOTIC AND NATIONAL OBSERVANCES, CEREMONIES, AND 
                              ORGANIZATIONS
 
            Subtitle II--Patriotic and National Organizations
 
                          Part B--Organizations
 
CHAPTER 1537--NATIONAL WOMAN'S RELIEF CORPS, AUXILIARY TO THE GRAND ARMY 
                             OF THE REPUBLIC
 
Sec. 153705. Powers

    The corporation may--
        (1) adopt and amend a constitution and bylaws for the management 
    of its property and the regulation of its affairs;
        (2) adopt and alter a corporate seal;
        (3) choose officers as the corporation requires;
        (4) make contracts;
        (5) acquire, own, lease, encumber, and transfer property as 
    necessary or convenient to carry out the purposes of the 
    corporation; and
        (6) sue and be sued.

(Pub. L. 105-225, Aug. 12, 1998, 112 Stat. 1429.)

                                          Historical and Revision Notes
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           Revised  Section                    Source (U.S. Code)              
 Source (Statutes at Large)
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153705................................  36:1004(2)-(8).                  Sept. 
7, 1962, Pub. L. 87-650, Secs.
                                                                          4(2)-
(8), 18, 76 Stat. 503, 506.
                                        36:1018.
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    In this section, the text of 36:1018 is omitted as executed and 
obsolete.
    In clause (1), the word ``alter'' is omitted as included in 
``amend''. The words ``not inconsistent with the laws of the United 
States or any State in which the corporation is to operate'' are omitted 
as unnecessary.
    In clause (2), the word ``use'' is omitted as unnecessary.
    In clause (4), the words ``make contracts'' are substituted for 
``contract and be contracted with'' for consistency in the revised title 
and to eliminate unnecessary words.
    Clause (5) is substituted for ``take by lease, gift, purchase, 
grants, devise, or bequest from any public body or agency or any private 
corporation, association, partnership, firm, or individual and to hold 
absolutely or in trust for any of the purposes of the corporation any 
property, real, personal, or mixed, necessary or convenient for 
attaining the objects and carrying into effect the purposes of the 
corporation'' and ``transfer, convey, lease, sublease, encumber, and 
otherwise alienate real, personal, or mixed property'' for consistency 
in the revised title and to eliminate unnecessary words. The words 
``subject, however, to applicable provisions of law of any State, (A) 
governing the amount or kind of property which may be held by, or (B) 
otherwise limiting or controlling the ownership of property by, a 
corporation operating in such State'' are omitted as unnecessary.
    In clause (6), the words ``complain and defend in any court of 
competent jurisdiction'' are omitted as unnecessary.
