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[CITE: 36USC21705]

 
     TITLE 36--PATRIOTIC AND NATIONAL OBSERVANCES, CEREMONIES, AND 
                              ORGANIZATIONS
 
            Subtitle II--Patriotic and National Organizations
 
                          Part B--Organizations
 
                    CHAPTER 217--THE AMERICAN LEGION
 
Sec. 21705. Exclusive right to name, emblems, and badges

    The corporation and its State and local subdivisions have the 
exclusive right to use the name ``The American Legion'' or ``American 
Legion''. The corporation has the exclusive right to use, manufacture, 
and control the right to manufacture, emblems and badges the corporation 
adopts.

(Pub. L. 105-225, Aug. 12, 1998, 112 Stat. 1298.)

                                          Historical and Revision Notes
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           Revised  Section                    Source (U.S. Code)              
 Source (Statutes at Large)
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21705.................................  36:44 (words between 4th and     Sept. 
16, 1919, ch. 59, Secs.  4 (words
                                         5th semicolons).                 betwe
en 4th and 5th semicolons), 8, 41
                                                                          Stat.
 285; June 26, 1953, ch. 153, 67
                                                                          Stat.
 82.
                                        36:48.
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    The word ``sole'' is omitted as included in ``exclusive''. The words 
``to have and'', ``in carrying out its purposes'', and ``in carrying out 
the purposes of the corporation'' are omitted as unnecessary.
