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[CITE: 36USC21903]

 
     TITLE 36--PATRIOTIC AND NATIONAL OBSERVANCES, CEREMONIES, AND 
                              ORGANIZATIONS
 
            Subtitle II--Patriotic and National Organizations
 
                          Part B--Organizations
 
         CHAPTER 219--THE AMERICAN NATIONAL THEATER AND ACADEMY
 
Sec. 21903. Powers

    The corporation may--
        (1) adopt a constitution, bylaws, and regulations;
        (2) adopt and alter a corporate seal;
        (3) establish and maintain offices and buildings to conduct its 
    activities;
        (4) establish State and territorial organizations and local 
    branches;
        (5) acquire, own, lease, encumber, and transfer property as 
    necessary to carry out the purposes of the corporation, subject to 
    its constitution and instructions of donors;
        (6) sue and be sued; and
        (7) do any other act necessary and proper to carry out the 
    purposes of the corporation.

(Pub. L. 105-225, Aug. 12, 1998, 112 Stat. 1299.)

                                          Historical and Revision Notes
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           Revised  Section                    Source (U.S. Code)              
 Source (Statutes at Large)
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21903.................................  36:3303 (less perpetual          July 5
, 1935, ch. 373, Secs.  3 (less
                                         succession).                     perpe
tual succession), 7, 49 Stat.
                                                                          458, 
459.
                                        36:3307.
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    In clause (1), the words ``to carry out its purposes not 
inconsistent with the laws of the United States or any States'' are 
omitted as unnecessary.
    In clause (2), the words ``at pleasure'' are omitted as unnecessary.
    In clause (3), the word ``activities'' is substituted for 
``business'' for consistency in the revised title.
    Clause (5) is substituted for ``to receive, hold, own, use, 
mortgage, and dispose of such real estate and personal property as shall 
be necessary for its corporate purposes'' in 36:3303 and for 36:3307 for 
consistency in the revised title and to eliminate unnecessary words.
    In clause (6), the words ``in the courts of law and equity'' are 
omitted as unnecessary.
    In clause (7), the words ``do any other act'' are substituted for 
``generally to do all such acts and things'' for consistency in the 
revised title and to eliminate unnecessary words.
