36 USC § 200306 - Exclusive right to name, seals, emblems, and badges

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identifier: "/us/usc/t36/s200306"
source: "usc"
legal_status: "official_legal_evidence"
title: "36 USC § 200306 - Exclusive right to name, seals, emblems, and badges"
title_number: 36
title_name: "PATRIOTIC AND NATIONAL OBSERVANCES, CEREMONIES, AND ORGANIZATIONS"
section_number: "200306"
section_name: "Exclusive right to name, seals, emblems, and badges"
chapter_number: 2003
chapter_name: "SONS OF UNION VETERANS OF THE CIVIL WAR"
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: "(Pub. L. 105–225, Aug. 12, 1998, 112 Stat. 1454.)"
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# § 200306. Exclusive right to name, seals, emblems, and badges

The corporation and its subordinate divisions have the exclusive right to use the name “Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War”. The corporation has the exclusive right to use and to allow others to use seals, emblems, and badges the corporation adopts.

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**Source Credit**: (Pub. L. 105–225, Aug. 12, 1998, 112 Stat. 1454.)

| RevisedSection | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200306 | 36:547. | Aug. 20, 1954, ch. 774, § 17, 68 Stat. 752. |

The words “sole” and “or refuse” are omitted as unnecessary. The words “corporation adopts” are substituted for “as it may legally adopt” for consistency in the revised title and to eliminate unnecessary words. The words “and such emblems, seals, and badges as have heretofore been used by the Illinois corporation described in  and the right to which may be lawfully transferred to the corporation” are omitted as executed and obsolete.