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[CITE: 36USC50304]

 
     TITLE 36--PATRIOTIC AND NATIONAL OBSERVANCES, CEREMONIES, AND 
                              ORGANIZATIONS
 
            Subtitle II--Patriotic and National Organizations
 
                          Part B--Organizations
 
                 CHAPTER 503--DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS
 
Sec. 50304. Powers

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

(Pub. L. 105-225, Aug. 12, 1998, 112 Stat. 1344.)

                                          Historical and Revision Notes
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           Revised  Section                    Source (U.S. Code)              
 Source (Statutes at Large)
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50304.................................  36:90d (less perpetual           June 1
7, 1932, ch. 268, Secs.  4 (less
                                         succession).                     perpe
tual succession), 7, 47 Stat.
                                                                          321.
                                        36:90g.
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    In this section, the text of 36:90g is omitted as executed and 
obsolete.
    In clause (1), the words ``not inconsistent with the laws of the 
United States or any State'' are omitted as unnecessary.
    In clause (2), the words ``at pleasure'' are omitted for consistency 
in the revised title.
    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.
    In clause (8), the words ``in courts of law and equity'' are omitted 
as unnecessary.
    In clause (9), the words ``and things as may be'' are omitted as 
unnecessary.
