36 U.S.C. § 210102: Purposes

Summary

Keep Theodore Roosevelt's memory alive for people in the United States and around the world. Collect and manage money, and use the main funds and the income they earn to support those goals. That money can be used to build and care for a memorial in the District of Columbia, make and maintain a public park in Oyster Bay, New York, create an endowment to promote Roosevelt’s policies and ideals, and give property (including part or all of the endowment) to a public agency to keep important Roosevelt sites in public ownership.

Title 36, §210102

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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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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.

§210102 Purposes

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