36 USC § 150402 - Purposes

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identifier: "/us/usc/t36/s150402"
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legal_status: "official_legal_evidence"
title: "36 USC § 150402 - Purposes"
title_number: 36
title_name: "PATRIOTIC AND NATIONAL OBSERVANCES, CEREMONIES, AND ORGANIZATIONS"
section_number: "150402"
section_name: "Purposes"
chapter_number: 1504
chapter_name: "NATIONAL AMERICAN INDIAN VETERANS, INCORPORATED"
part_number: "B"
part_name: "Organizations"
positive_law: true
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(Added Pub. L. 118–31, div. E, title LI, § 5103(a), Dec. 22, 2023, 137 Stat. 935.)"
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# § 150402. Purposes

The purposes of the corporation are those stated in the articles of incorporation, constitution, and bylaws of the corporation, and include a commitment—

**(1)** to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States while respecting the sovereignty of the American Indian Nations;

**(2)** to unite under one body all American Indian veterans who served in the Armed Forces of United States;

**(3)** to be an advocate on behalf of all American Indian veterans without regard to whether they served during times of peace, conflict, or war;

**(4)** to promote social welfare (including educational, economic, social, physical, and cultural values and traditional healing) in the United States by encouraging the growth and development, readjustment, self-respect, self-confidence, contributions, and self-identity of American Indian veterans;

**(5)** to serve as an advocate for the needs of American Indian veterans and their families and survivors in their dealings with all Federal and State government agencies;

**(6)** to promote, support, and utilize research, on a nonpartisan basis, pertaining to the relationship between American Indian veterans and American society; and

**(7)** to provide technical assistance to the Bureau of Indian Affairs regional areas that are not served by any veterans committee or organization or program by—

**(A)** providing outreach service to Indian Tribes in need; and

**(B)** training and educating Tribal Veterans Service Officers for Indian Tribes in need.

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**Source Credit**: (Added Pub. L. 118–31, div. E, title LI, § 5103(a), Dec. 22, 2023, 137 Stat. 935.)