Title 36Patriotic and National ObservancesRelease 119-73

§80503 Purposes

Title 36 › Subtitle Subtitle II— - Patriotic and National Organizations › Part Part B— - Organizations › Chapter CHAPTER 805— - GOLD STAR WIVES OF AMERICA › § 80503

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

Must be a nonprofit, nonpartisan corporation serving the public, including patriotic, charitable, and educational purposes; its articles may add other nonconflicting purposes.

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Title 36, §80503

Patriotic and National Observances — Source: USLM XML via OLRC

The purposes of the corporation are—
(1)to operate in the public interest, as a nonpartisan and nonprofit organization, solely for patriotic, charitable, literary, educational, scientific, or civic improvement purposes; and
(2)the purposes stated in its articles of incorporation that are not inconsistent with the purposes described in clause (1) of this section.

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Historical and Revision Notes

Revised SectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 8050336:1603 (less discrimination).Dec. 4, 1980, Pub. L. 96–497, § 3 (less discrimination), 94 Stat. 2595. Before clause (1), the words “purposes of the corporation are” are substituted for “objects and purposes of the corporation shall be, solely, that it is” for consistency in the revised title and to eliminate unnecessary words. In clause (1), the words “to operate in the public interest, as a nonpartisan and nonprofit organization, solely for” are substituted for “(a) organized and operated in the public interest, as a nonpartisan and nonprofit organization . . . (b) organized and operated solely for” to eliminate unnecessary words and because the prohibition on discrimination in 36:1603(a) is restated in section 80504 and 80505 of the revised title.

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Citation

36 U.S.C. § 80503

Title 36Patriotic and National Observances

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73