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[CITE: 36USC30302]

 
     TITLE 36--PATRIOTIC AND NATIONAL OBSERVANCES, CEREMONIES, AND 
                              ORGANIZATIONS
 
            Subtitle II--Patriotic and National Organizations
 
                          Part B--Organizations
 
                CHAPTER 303--BLINDED VETERANS ASSOCIATION
 
Sec. 30302. Purposes

    The purposes of the corporation are--
        (1) to operate as a not-for-profit corporation exclusively for 
    charitable, educational, patriotic, and civic improvement purposes;
        (2) to promote the welfare of blinded veterans so that, 
    notwithstanding their disabilities, they may take their rightful 
    place in the community and work with their fellow citizens toward 
    the creation of a peaceful world;
        (3) to preserve and strengthen a spirit of fellowship among 
    blinded veterans so that they may give mutual aid and assistance to 
    one another; and
        (4) to maintain and extend the institutions of American freedom 
    and to encourage loyalty to the Constitution and laws of the United 
    States and of the States in which they reside.

(Pub. L. 105-225, Aug. 12, 1998, 112 Stat. 1317.)

                                          Historical and Revision Notes
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           Revised  Section                    Source (U.S. Code)              
 Source (Statutes at Large)
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30302.................................  36:853(1)-(3), (4) (less words   Aug. 2
7, 1958, Pub. L. 85-769, Sec.
                                         between 1st comma and            3(1)-
(3), (4) (less words between 1st
                                         semicolon).                      comma
 and semicolon), 72 Stat. 924.
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    In clause (1), the words ``to operate as a not-for-profit 
corporation'' are substituted for ``To be organized and operated as a 
corporation not for profit . . . and such corporation is organized and 
shall be operated'' in 36:853(4) to eliminate unnecessary words.
