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Title 36 — Patriotic and National ObservancesRelease 119-73

§152307 Restrictions

Title 36 › Subtitle Subtitle II— - Patriotic and National Organizations › Part Part B— - Organizations › Chapter CHAPTER 1523— - NATIONAL MUSIC COUNCIL › § 152307

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

The organization must not run a business to make money. It may not create stock or give out profit payments to owners. It cannot give money or help to a political party or someone running for office. Its money and property cannot be used for the personal gain of a director, officer, or member, except when the organization closes and is finally wound up. The group may not lend money to a director, officer, or employee; if directors approve such a loan or officers take part in making it, those people are each and all responsible to repay the loan to the organization until it is paid back.

Full Legal Text

Title 36, §152307

Patriotic and National Observances — Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(a)The corporation may not engage in business for profit.
(b)The corporation may not issue stock or declare or pay a dividend.
(c)The corporation or a director, officer, or member as such may not contribute to, support, or assist a political party or candidate for elective public office.
(d)The income or assets of the corporation may not inure to the benefit of, or be distributed to, a director, officer, or member except on dissolution or final liquidation of the corporation.
(e)The corporation may not make a loan to a director, officer, or employee. Directors who vote for or assent to making a loan to a director, officer, or employee, and officers who participate in making the loan, are jointly and severally liable to the corporation for the amount of the loan until it is repaid.

Legislative History

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Historical and Revision Notes

Revised SectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 152307(a)36:672 (words after comma).Aug. 1, 1956, ch. 824, §§ 9, 10, 12, 70 Stat. 796. 152307(b)36:672 (words before comma). 152307(c)36:670. 152307(d)36:669(a). 152307(e)36:669(b). In subsection (a), the word “pecuniary” is omitted as unnecessary. In subsection (b), the words “any shares of” are omitted as unnecessary. In subsection (d), the words “inure to the benefit of” are substituted for “inure to” for consistency in the revised title. The words “as provided in section 675 of this title” are omitted as unnecessary.

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Citation

36 U.S.C. § 152307

Title 36 — Patriotic and National Observances

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73