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[CITE: 36USC70902]

 
     TITLE 36--PATRIOTIC AND NATIONAL OBSERVANCES, CEREMONIES, AND 
                              ORGANIZATIONS
 
            Subtitle II--Patriotic and National Organizations
 
                          Part B--Organizations
 
                 CHAPTER 709--FUTURE FARMERS OF AMERICA
 
Sec. 70902. Purposes

    The purposes of the corporation are--
        (1) to create, foster, and assist subsidiary chapters composed 
    of students and former students of vocational agriculture in public 
    schools qualifying for Federal reimbursement under the Smith-Hughes 
    Vocational Education Act (20 U.S.C. 11-15, 16-28) and associations 
    of those chapters in the States, territories, and possessions of the 
    United States;
        (2) to develop character, train for useful citizenship, and 
    foster patriotism, and thereby develop competent and aggressive 
    rural and agricultural leadership;
        (3) to create and nurture a love of country life by encouraging 
    members to improve the farm home and its surroundings, to develop 
    organized rural recreational activities, and to create more interest 
    in the intelligent choice of farming occupations;
        (4) to encourage the practice of thrift;
        (5) to procure for and distribute to State associations, local 
    chapters, and members all official supplies and equipment of the 
    corporation;
        (6) to publish an official magazine and other publications for 
    the members of the corporation;
        (7) to strengthen the confidence of young men and women in 
    themselves and their work, to encourage members in the development 
    of individual farming programs, and to promote their permanent 
    establishment in farming by--
            (A) encouraging improvement in scholarship;
            (B) providing prizes and awards to deserving students who 
        have achieved distinction in vocational agriculture, including 
        farm mechanics activities on a local, State, or national basis; 
        and
            (C) assisting financially, through loans or grants, 
        deserving students in all-day vocational agriculture classes and 
        young farmers under 30 years of age who were former students in 
        all-day vocational agriculture classes in becoming 
        satisfactorily established in a farming occupation;

        (8) to cooperate with others, including State boards for 
    vocational education, in accomplishing these purposes; and
        (9) to engage in other activities, consistent with these 
    purposes, determined by the governing body to be for the best 
    interests of the corporation.

(Pub. L. 105-225, Aug. 12, 1998, 112 Stat. 1356.)

                                          Historical and Revision Notes
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           Revised  Section                    Source (U.S. Code)              
 Source (Statutes at Large)
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70902.................................  36:273.                          Aug. 3
0, 1950, ch. 823, Sec.  3, 64
                                                                          Stat.
 563.
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    In clause (1), the reference to the Vocational Education Act of 1946 
(ch. 541, 49 Stat. 1488) is omitted because that Act was repealed by 
section 103 of the Act of October 16, 1968 (Public Law 90-576, 82 Stat. 
1091). The words ``States, territories, and possessions'' are 
substituted for ``several States and Territories'' for consistency in 
the revised title and with other titles of the United States Code.
    In clause (7), the words ``young men and women'' are substituted for 
``farm boys and young men'' to use gender-neutral terminology.

                       References in Text

    The Smith-Hughes Vocational Education Act, referred to in par. (1), 
is act Feb. 23, 1917, ch. 114, 39 Stat. 929, as amended, which was 
classified to sections 11 to 15 and 16 to 28 of Title 20, Education, 
prior to repeal by Pub. L. 105-33, title VI, Sec. 6201, Aug. 5, 1997, 
111 Stat. 653. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see 
Short Title note set out under section 11 of Title 20 and Tables.
