36 USC § 230306 - Exclusive right to name, seals, emblems, and badges

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identifier: "/us/usc/t36/s230306"
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title: "36 USC § 230306 - Exclusive right to name, seals, emblems, and badges"
title_number: 36
title_name: "PATRIOTIC AND NATIONAL OBSERVANCES, CEREMONIES, AND ORGANIZATIONS"
section_number: "230306"
section_name: "Exclusive right to name, seals, emblems, and badges"
chapter_number: 2303
chapter_name: "VETERANS OF WORLD WAR I OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 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: "(Pub. L. 105–225, Aug. 12, 1998, 112 Stat. 1484.)"
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# § 230306. Exclusive right to name, seals, emblems, and badges

The corporation and its subordinate divisions have the exclusive right to use the name “Veterans of World War I of the United States of America, Incorporated”. 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. 1484.)

| RevisedSection | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 230306 | 36:777. | July 18, 1958, Pub. L. 85–530, § 17, 72 Stat. 374. |

The words “sole”, “or refuse”, and “and such emblems, seals, and badges as have heretofore been used by the Ohio corporation described in ” are omitted as unnecessary. The words “and the right to which may be lawfully transferred to the corporation” are omitted as executed.