36 U.S.C. § 30302: Purposes

Summary

Operate as a nonprofit with four main goals. Provide charity, education, patriotic, and civic-improvement activities. Help blinded veterans take part in community life despite their disabilities and work for a peaceful world. Keep and grow fellowship so veterans can help one another, and support American freedom and loyalty to the Constitution and state laws.

Title 36, §30302

Patriotic and National Observances, Source: USLM XML via OLRC

The purposes of the corporation are—

(1)to operate as a not-for-profit corporation exclusively for charitable, educational, patriotic, and civic improvement purposes;

(2)to promote the welfare of blinded veterans so that, notwithstanding their disabilities, they may take their rightful place in the community and work with their fellow citizens toward the creation of a peaceful world;

(3)to preserve and strengthen a spirit of fellowship among blinded veterans so that they may give mutual aid and assistance to one another; and

(4)to maintain and extend the institutions of American freedom and to encourage loyalty to the Constitution and laws of the United States and of the States in which they reside.

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Historical and Revision Notes

Revised SectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 3030236:853(1)–(3), (4) (less words between 1st comma and semicolon).Aug. 27, 1958, Pub. L. 85–769, § 3(1)–(3), (4) (less words between 1st comma and semicolon), 72 Stat. 924. In clause (1), the words “to operate as a not-for-profit corporation” are substituted for “To be organized and operated as a corporation not for profit . . . and such corporation is organized and shall be operated” in 36:853(4) to eliminate unnecessary words.

§30302 Purposes

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Title 36, §30302

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