36 USC § 30302 - Purposes

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identifier: "/us/usc/t36/s30302"
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legal_status: "official_legal_evidence"
title: "36 USC § 30302 - Purposes"
title_number: 36
title_name: "PATRIOTIC AND NATIONAL OBSERVANCES, CEREMONIES, AND ORGANIZATIONS"
section_number: "30302"
section_name: "Purposes"
chapter_number: 303
chapter_name: "BLINDED VETERANS ASSOCIATION"
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. 1317.)"
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# § 30302. Purposes

The purposes of the corporation are—

**(1)** to operate as a not-for-profit corporation exclusively for charitable, educational, patriotic, and civic improvement purposes;

**(2)** to promote the welfare of blinded veterans so that, notwithstanding their disabilities, they may take their rightful place in the community and work with their fellow citizens toward the creation of a peaceful world;

**(3)** to preserve and strengthen a spirit of fellowship among blinded veterans so that they may give mutual aid and assistance to one another; and

**(4)** to maintain and extend the institutions of American freedom and to encourage loyalty to the Constitution and laws of the United States and of the States in which they reside.

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**Source Credit**: (Pub. L. 105–225, Aug. 12, 1998, 112 Stat. 1317.)

| RevisedSection | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 30302 | 36:853(1)–(3), (4) (less words between 1st comma and semicolon). | Aug. 27, 1958, Pub. L. 85–769, § 3(1)–(3), (4) (less words between 1st comma and semicolon), 72 Stat. 924. |

In clause (1), the words “to operate as a not-for-profit corporation” are substituted for “To be organized and operated as a corporation not for profit . . . and such corporation is organized and shall be operated” in 36:853(4) to eliminate unnecessary words.