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[CITE: 36USC22504]

 
     TITLE 36--PATRIOTIC AND NATIONAL OBSERVANCES, CEREMONIES, AND 
                              ORGANIZATIONS
 
            Subtitle II--Patriotic and National Organizations
 
                          Part B--Organizations
 
                    CHAPTER 225--AMERICAN WAR MOTHERS
 
Sec. 22504. Powers

    The corporation may--
        (1) adopt a constitution, bylaws, and regulations;
        (2) adopt and alter a corporate seal;
        (3) adopt emblems and badges;
        (4) establish and maintain offices to conduct its activities;
        (5) establish State, territorial, and local subdivisions;
        (6) acquire, own, lease, encumber, and transfer property as 
    necessary to carry out the purposes of the corporation, subject to 
    section 22506(b) of this title;
        (7) publish a magazine and other publications;
        (8) sue and be sued; and
        (9) do any other act necessary and proper to carry out its 
    purposes.

(Pub. L. 105-225, Aug. 12, 1998, 112 Stat. 1305.)

                                          Historical and Revision Notes
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           Revised  Section                    Source (U.S. Code)              
 Source (Statutes at Large)
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22504.................................  36:95 (less words between colon  Feb. 2
4, 1925, ch. 303, Secs.  5 (less
                                         and 1st comma).                  words
 between colon and 1st comma), 9,
                                                                          43 St
at. 967, 968.
                                        36:99.
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    In this section, the text of 36:99 is omitted as executed and 
obsolete.
    In clause (1), the words ``to carry out its purposes, not 
inconsistent with the laws of the United States or of any State'' are 
omitted as unnecessary.
    In clause (2), the words ``at pleasure'' are omitted as unnecessary.
    In clause (3), the words ``adopt emblems and badges'' are 
substituted for ``to use in carrying out the purposes of the corporation 
such emblems and badges as it may adopt'' for consistency in the revised 
title and to eliminate unnecessary words.
    In clause (4), the word ``activities'' is substituted for 
``business'' for consistency in the revised title.
    Clause (6) is substituted for ``receive, hold, own, use, and dispose 
of such real estate and personal property as shall be necessary for its 
corporate purposes'' for consistency in the revised title and to 
eliminate unnecessary words. The words ``subject to section 22506(b) of 
this title'' are added to alert the reader to the restriction in that 
section.
    In clause (8), the words ``in courts of law and equity'' are omitted 
as unnecessary.
    In clause (9), the word ``things'' is omitted as included in 
``act''.
