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[CITE: 36USC230101]

 
     TITLE 36--PATRIOTIC AND NATIONAL OBSERVANCES, CEREMONIES, AND 
                              ORGANIZATIONS
 
            Subtitle II--Patriotic and National Organizations
 
                          Part B--Organizations
 
       CHAPTER 2301--VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED STATES
 
Sec. 230101. Organization

    (a) Federal Charter.--Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States 
(in this chapter, the ``corporation''), a national association of men 
who as soldiers, sailors, marines, and airmen served this Nation in 
wars, campaigns, and expeditions on foreign soil or in hostile waters, 
is a federally chartered corporation.
    (b) Perpetual Existence.--Except as otherwise provided, the 
corporation has perpetual existence.

(Pub. L. 105-225, Aug. 12, 1998, 112 Stat. 1481.)

                                          Historical and Revision Notes
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           Revised  Section                    Source (U.S. Code)              
 Source (Statutes at Large)
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230101(a).............................  36:111.                          May 28
, 1936, ch. 471, Sec.  1, 49
                                                                          Stat.
 1390; May 29, 1953, ch. 85, Sec.
                                                                           1, 6
7 Stat. 40.
                                        36:112.                          May 28
, 1936, ch. 471, Secs.  2, 4
                                                                          (word
s before 4th semicolon related to
                                                                          perpe
tual succession), 49 Stat. 1390,
                                                                          1391.
230101(b).............................  36:114 (words before 4th
                                         semicolon related to perpetual
                                         succession).
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    Subsection (a) is substituted for the source provisions for 
consistency in the revised title and to eliminate unnecessary and 
executed words.
    In subsection (b), the words ``perpetual existence'' are substituted 
for ``perpetual succession'' for consistency in the revised title.
