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[CITE: 36USC220102]

 
     TITLE 36--PATRIOTIC AND NATIONAL OBSERVANCES, CEREMONIES, AND 
                              ORGANIZATIONS
 
            Subtitle II--Patriotic and National Organizations
 
                          Part B--Organizations
 
        CHAPTER 2201--UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS, INCORPORATED
 
Sec. 220102. Purposes

    The purposes of the corporation are--
        (1) to provide a voluntary civilian agency through which the 
    people of this Nation may, in peace or war, serve the religious, 
    spiritual, social, welfare, educational, and entertainment needs of 
    men and women in the Armed Forces, within or without the territorial 
    limits of the United States;
        (2) to contribute to the maintenance of morale of men and women 
    in the Armed Forces;
        (3) to solicit funds to maintain the organization and accomplish 
    its responsibility;
        (4) to accept the cooperation of, and provide an organization 
    and means through which, the National Board of Young Men's Christian 
    Associations, the National Board of Young Women's Christian 
    Associations, the National Catholic Community Service, the Salvation 
    Army, the National Jewish Welfare Board, the Travelers Aid-
    International Social Service of America, and other civilian agencies 
    experienced in specialized types of related work, which may be 
    needed adequately to meet the particular needs of the members of the 
    Armed Forces, may carry on their historic work of serving the 
    religious, spiritual, social, welfare, educational, and 
    entertainment needs of men and women in the Armed Forces and be 
    afforded an appropriate means of participation and financial 
    assistance;
        (5) to coordinate their programs; and
        (6) other consonant purposes.

(Pub. L. 105-225, Aug. 12, 1998, 112 Stat. 1459.)

                                          Historical and Revision Notes
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           Revised  Section                    Source (U.S. Code)              
 Source (Statutes at Large)
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220102................................  36:1302.                         Dec. 2
9, 1979, Pub. L. 96-165, Sec.  2,
                                                                          93 St
at. 1268.
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    Before clause (1), the word ``objects'' is omitted as included in 
``purposes''.
    In clause (4), the words ``and to accept the cooperation of 
individual citizens in accomplishing its purposes'' are omitted as 
unnecessary because of clause (1) of this section.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 220103, 220104, 220105, 
220108 of this title.
