Title 36 — Patriotic and National ObservancesRelease 119-73

§152402 Purposes

Title 36 › Subtitle Subtitle II— - Patriotic and National Organizations › Part Part B— - Organizations › Chapter CHAPTER 1524— - NATIONAL RECORDING PRESERVATION FOUNDATION › § 152402

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

Create a corporation to collect and manage private donations that help save and make accessible the nation’s sound recordings held at the Library of Congress and other public or nonprofit archives. The corporation must also help the Library of Congress and the National Recording Preservation Board carry out their work under the National Recording Preservation Act of 2000.

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Title 36, §152402

Patriotic and National Observances — Source: USLM XML via OLRC

The purposes of the corporation are to—

(1)encourage, accept, and administer private gifts to promote and ensure the preservation and public accessibility of the nation’s sound recording heritage held at the Library of Congress and other public and nonprofit archives throughout the United States; and

(2)further the goals of the Library of Congress and the National Recording Preservation Board in connection with their activities under the National Recording Preservation Act of 2000.

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The National Recording Preservation Act of 2000, referred to in par. (2), is Pub. L. 106–474, Nov. 9, 2000, 114 Stat. 2085, which enacted this chapter and chapter 27 (§ 1701 et seq.) of Title 2, The Congress. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see

Short Title

note set out under section 1701 of Title 2 and Tables.

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Citation

36 U.S.C. § 152402

Title 36 — Patriotic and National Observances

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73