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Title 36 — Patriotic and National ObservancesRelease 119-73

§210102 Purposes

Title 36 › Subtitle Subtitle II— - Patriotic and National Organizations › Part Part B— - Organizations › Chapter CHAPTER 2101— - THEODORE ROOSEVELT ASSOCIATION › § 210102

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

Creates a corporation to keep Theodore Roosevelt's memory alive for people in the United States and the world. It must raise and manage money and use the funds and earnings to build and care for a memorial in Washington, create and maintain a public park in Oyster Bay, New York, set up an endowment to promote Roosevelt’s policies and ideals, and give property or endowment funds to a public agency to protect important Roosevelt sites.

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Title 36, §210102

Patriotic and National Observances — Source: USLM XML via OLRC

The purposes of the corporation are—
(1)to perpetuate the memory of Theodore Roosevelt for the benefit of the people of the United States and the world; and
(2)to solicit, receive, hold, and maintain funds, and to apply the principal of the funds and the income from those funds to the following objects, among others:
(A)the erection and maintenance of a suitable and adequate monumental memorial in the District of Columbia to the memory of Theodore Roosevelt;
(B)the acquisition, development, and maintenance of a public park in memory of Theodore Roosevelt in Oyster Bay, New York;
(C)the establishment and maintenance of an endowment fund to promote the development and application of the policies and ideals of Theodore Roosevelt for the benefit of the American people; and
(D)the donation of real and personal property, including part or all of its endowment fund, to a public agency for the purpose of preserving in public ownership historically significant property associated with the life of Theodore Roosevelt.

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Historical and Revision Notes

Revised SectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 21010236:4703.May 31, 1920, ch. 216, § 3, 41 Stat. 693; July 25, 1962, Pub. L. 87–547, § 6, 76 Stat. 217. In clause (2), before subclause (A), the words “among others” are substituted for “and to that end, but without restriction to the objects enumerated below” to eliminate unnecessary words.

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36 U.S.C. § 210102

Title 36 — Patriotic and National Observances

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73