Title 36, Patriotic and National ObservancesRelease 119-102
§80503 Purposes
Title 36 › Subtitle II — Patriotic and National Organizations › Part B — Organizations › CHAPTER 805 — GOLD STAR WIVES OF AMERICA › § 80503
Summary
Requires the corporation to be a nonpartisan nonprofit that serves the public—patriotic, charitable, literary, educational, scientific, or civic purposes—and to carry out any articles-of-incorporation purposes that do not conflict with those public 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 36, Patriotic and National Observances
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102