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[CITE: 36USC20504]

 
     TITLE 36--PATRIOTIC AND NATIONAL OBSERVANCES, CEREMONIES, AND 
                              ORGANIZATIONS
 
            Subtitle II--Patriotic and National Organizations
 
                          Part B--Organizations
 
                 CHAPTER 205--AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
 
Sec. 20504. Cooperation with the military

    (a) Investigations, Examinations, Experiments, and Reports.--When 
requested by the Secretary of the Army, Air Force, or Navy, the 
corporation shall investigate, examine, experiment, and report on any 
subject in pure or applied chemistry connected with the national 
defense.
    (b) Payments.--The actual expense of those investigations, 
examinations, experiments, and reports shall be paid from amounts 
appropriated for those purposes, but the corporation may not receive 
compensation for any services performed for the United States 
Government.
    (c) Title and License.--Title to inventions and discoveries made in 
the course of those investigations, examinations, and experiments that 
the appropriate Secretary believes involve the national defense vest in 
the Government. The Government shall have unlimited license under other 
inventions and discoveries made in the course of those investigations, 
examinations, and experiments.

(Pub. L. 105-225, Aug. 12, 1998, 112 Stat. 1288.)

                                          Historical and Revision Notes
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           Revised  Section                    Source (U.S. Code)              
 Source (Statutes at Large)
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20504.................................  36:3204.                         Aug. 2
5, 1937, ch. 762, Sec.  4, 50
                                                                          Stat.
 799.
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    In subsection (a), the words ``When requested by the Secretary of 
the Army, Air Force, or Navy, the corporation'' are substituted for 
``The American Chemical Society shall, whenever called upon by the Army, 
Air Force, or Navy Department'' because under 10:3013, 5013, and 8013 
the Secretaries are the heads of the Departments. The Secretary of the 
Air Force is added because of section 207 of the National Security Act 
of 1947 (ch. 343, 61 Stat. 502).
    In subsection (b), the words ``shall be paid from amounts 
appropriated for those purposes'' are substituted for ``to be paid from 
appropriations which may have been made for that purpose by Congress'' 
for clarity and to eliminate unnecessary words.
    In subsection (c), the words ``that the appropriate Secretary 
believes'' are substituted for ``that, in the opinion of the Secretary 
of the Navy, the Secretary of the Air Force, or the Secretary of the 
Army'' to eliminate unnecessary words.
