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[CITE: 36USC70502]

 
     TITLE 36--PATRIOTIC AND NATIONAL OBSERVANCES, CEREMONIES, AND 
                              ORGANIZATIONS
 
            Subtitle II--Patriotic and National Organizations
 
                          Part B--Organizations
 
       CHAPTER 705--THE FOUNDATION OF THE FEDERAL BAR ASSOCIATION
 
Sec. 70502. Purposes

    The purposes of the corporation are--
        (1) to receive and hold property, including by gift, devise, or 
    grant, and to invest, administer, and dispose of the property 
    without restrictions applicable to trustees or trust funds;
        (2) to apply its income and any part of its principal 
    exclusively to educational, charitable, scientific, or literary 
    purposes--
            (A) to advance the science of jurisprudence;
            (B) to uphold high standards for the Federal judiciary and 
        attorneys representing the United States Government;
            (C) to promote and improve the administration of justice, 
        including the study of means for the improved handling of the 
        legal business of the departments, agencies, and 
        instrumentalities of the Government;
            (D) to facilitate the cultivation and diffusion of knowledge 
        and understanding of the law and the promotion of the study of 
        the law and the science of jurisprudence and research in 
        jurisprudence, through the maintenance of a law library, the 
        establishment of seminars, lectures, and studies devoted to the 
        law, and the publication of addresses, essays, treatises, 
        reports, and other literary works by students, practitioners, 
        and teachers of the law; and
            (E) to provide for the acquisition, preservation, and 
        exhibition of rare books and documents, sculptures, paintings, 
        and other objects of art and historical interest relating to the 
        law, the courts, and the legal profession; and

        (3) to do any other acts necessary or incident to the 
    accomplishment of these purposes.

(Pub. L. 105-225, Aug. 12, 1998, 112 Stat. 1351.)

                                          Historical and Revision Notes
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           Revised  Section                    Source (U.S. Code)              
 Source (Statutes at Large)
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70502.................................  36:573.                          Aug. 2
4, 1954, ch. 911, Sec.  3, 68
                                                                          Stat.
 797.
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    Before clause (1), the word ``objects'' is omitted as included in 
``purposes''.
    Clause (1) is substituted for 36:573(1) to eliminate unnecessary 
words.
    In clause (2), the words ``and if the corporation so decides, all 
or'' and ``or any of them'' are omitted as unnecessary. In subclause 
(D), the words ``in jurisprudence'' are substituted for ``therein'' for 
clarity.
    In clause (3), the words ``any other acts'' are substituted for 
``any and all things'' for consistency in the revised title.
