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width="700"> <!-- PDFPage:1 --> <!-- documentid:36_ currentthrough:19970106 documentPDFPage:-1 --> <!-- itempath:/360 --> <!-- itemsortkey:360AAAA --> <!-- expcite:TITLE 36-PATRIOTIC SOCIETIES AND OBSERVANCES --> <!-- field-start:titlehead --> <h1 class="usc-title-head">TITLE 36&mdash;PATRIOTIC SOCIETIES AND OBSERVANCES</h1> <!-- field-end:titlehead --> <!-- field-start:analysis --> <div class="analysis"> <div><div class="analysis-head-left">Chap.</div><div class="analysis-head-right">Sec.</div></div> <div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">1.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">American National Red Cross</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">1</div></div> <div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">1A.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">Daughters of the American Revolution</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">18</div></div> <div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">1B.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">American Historical Association</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">20</div></div> <div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">1C.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">Sons of the American Revolution</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">20a</div></div> <div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">2.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">Boy Scouts of America</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">21</div></div> <div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">2A.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">Girl Scouts of America</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">31</div></div> <div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">3.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">The American Legion</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">41</div></div> <div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">3A.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center" id="wide">United Spanish War Veterans [Omitted]</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">56</div></div> <div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">3B.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">Marine Corps League</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">57</div></div> <div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">4.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">Belleau Wood Memorial Association</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">61</div></div> <div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">4A.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">AMVETS (American Veterans of World War II, Korea, and Vietnam)</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">67</div></div> <div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">5.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center" id="wide">Grand Army of the Republic [Omitted]</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">71</div></div> <div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">5A.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">78</div></div> <div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">6.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">United States Blind Veterans of World War I</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">81</div></div> <div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">6A.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">Disabled American Veterans</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">90a</div></div> <div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">7.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">American War Mothers</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">91</div></div> <div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">7A.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">111</div></div> <div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">8.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">American Battle Monuments Commission</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">121</div></div> <div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">8A.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">The National Yeomen F</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">139</div></div> <div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">8B.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">Navy Club of the United States of America</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">140</div></div> <div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">9.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">National Observances</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">141</div></div> <div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">10.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">Patriotic Customs</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">170</div></div> <div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">11.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">Civil Air Patrol</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">201</div></div> <div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">12.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">Reserve Officers Association</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">221</div></div> <div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">13.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">National Academy of Sciences</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">251</div></div> <div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">14.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">Future Farmers of America</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">271</div></div> <div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">15.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">Military Chaplains Association of the United States of America</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">311</div></div> <div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">16.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">American Society of International Law</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">341</div></div> <div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">17.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">United States Olympic Committee</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">371</div></div> <div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">18.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">National Conference of State Societies, Washington, District of Columbia</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">401</div></div> <div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">19.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center" id="wide">Corregidor Bataan Memorial Commission [Omitted]</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">426</div></div> <div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">20.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">National Conference on Citizenship</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">431</div></div> <div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">21.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">National Safety Council</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">461</div></div> <div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">22.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">Pershing Hall Memorial Fund</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">491</div></div> <div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">23.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">Board for Fundamental Education</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">501</div></div> <div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">24.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">531</div></div> <div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">25.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">The Foundation of the Federal Bar Association</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">571</div></div> <div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">26.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">National Fund for Medical Education</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">601</div></div> <div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">27.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">Legion of Valor of the United States of America, Inc.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">631</div></div> <div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">28.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">National Music Council</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">661</div></div> <div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">29.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">Boys & Girls Clubs of America</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">691</div></div> <div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">30.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">Presidential Inaugural Ceremonies</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">721</div></div> <div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">31.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center" id="wide">Civil War Centennial Commission [Omitted or Repealed]</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">741</div></div> <div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">32.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">Veterans of World War I of the United States of America</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">761</div></div> <div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">33.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">The Congressional Medal of Honor Society of the United States of America</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">791</div></div> <div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">34.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">Military Order of the Purple Heart of the United States of America</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">821</div></div> <div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">35.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">Blinded Veterans Association</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">851</div></div> <div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">36.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">Big Brothers&mdash;Big Sisters of America</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">881</div></div> <div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">37.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">Jewish War Veterans, U.S.A., National Memorial, Inc.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">911</div></div> <div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">38.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">Blue Star Mothers of America</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">941</div></div> <div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">39.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">Agricultural Hall of Fame</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">971</div></div> <div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">40.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">National Woman's Relief Corps, Auxiliary to the Grand Army of the Republic</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">1001</div></div> <div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">41.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">Naval Sea Cadet Corps</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">1041</div></div> <div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">41A.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">Little League Baseball, Inc.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">1071</div></div> <div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">42.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">Audits of Federally Chartered Corporations</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">1101</div></div> <div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">43.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">Paralyzed Veterans of America</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">1151</div></div> <div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">44.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">United States Capitol Historical Society</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">1201</div></div> <div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">45.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">United Service Organizations, Inc.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">1301</div></div> <div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">46.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">United States Holocaust Memorial Council</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">1401</div></div> <div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">47.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">National Ski Patrol System, Inc.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">1501</div></div> <div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">48.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">Gold Star Wives of America</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">1601</div></div> <div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">49.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">Italian American War Veterans of the United States</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">1701</div></div> <div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">50.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">United States Submarine Veterans of World War II</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">1801</div></div> <div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">51.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">American Council of Learned Societies</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">1901</div></div> <div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">52.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">National Federation of Music Clubs</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">2001</div></div> <div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">53.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">American Ex-Prisoners of War</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">2101</div></div> <div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">54.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">Former Members of Congress</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">2201</div></div> <div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">55.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">National Academy of Public Administration</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">2301</div></div> <div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">56.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">American Gold Star Mothers, Inc.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">2401</div></div> <div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">57.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">Polish Legion of American Veterans, U.S.A.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">2501</div></div> <div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">58.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">Catholic War Veterans of the United States of America, Inc.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">2601</div></div> <div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">59.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">Jewish War Veterans of the United States of America, Inc.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">2701</div></div> <div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">60.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">Navy Wives Clubs of America</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">2801</div></div> <div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">61.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">National Society, Daughters of the American Colonists</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">2901<!-- PDFPage:2 --></div></div> <div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">62.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">369th Veterans&rsquo; Association</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">3001</div></div> <div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">63.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">Women's Army Corps Veterans&rsquo; Association</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">3101</div></div> <div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">64.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">American Chemical Society</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">3201</div></div> <div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">65.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">The American National Theater and Academy</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">3301</div></div> <div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">66.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">American Symphony Orchestra League</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">3401</div></div> <div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">67.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">General Federation of Women's Clubs</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">3501</div></div> <div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">68.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">Pearl Harbor Survivors Association</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">3601</div></div> <div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">69.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War 1861&ndash;1865</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">3701</div></div> <div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">70.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">Vietnam Veterans of America, Inc.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">3801</div></div> <div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">71.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">Army and Navy Union of the United States of America</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">3901</div></div> <div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">72.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">Non Commissioned Officers Association of the United States of America, Inc.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">4001</div></div> <div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">73.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">National Mining Hall of Fame and Museum</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">4101</div></div> <div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">74.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">American Academy of Arts and Letters</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">4201</div></div> <div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">75.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">Aviation Hall of Fame</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">4301</div></div> <div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">76.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">Frederick Douglass Memorial and Historical Association</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">4401</div></div> <div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">77.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">4501</div></div> <div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">78.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">National Tropical Botanical Garden</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">4601</div></div> <div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">79.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">Theodore Roosevelt Association</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">4701</div></div> <div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">80.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">82nd Airborne Division Association, Inc.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">4801</div></div> <div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">81.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">American Hospital of Paris</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">4901</div></div> <div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">82.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">Military Order of the World Wars</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">5001</div></div> <div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">83.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">Retired Enlisted Association, Incorporated</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">5101</div></div> <div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">84.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">National Fallen Firefighters Foundation</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">5201</div></div> <div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">85.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">National Education Association of the United States</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">5301</div></div> <div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">86.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">Society of American Florists and Ornamental Horticulturists</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">5401</div></div> <div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">87.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">Corporation for the Promotion of Rifle Practice and Firearms Safety</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">5501</div></div> <div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">88.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">Fleet Reserve Association</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">5601</div></div> <div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-left">89.</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-center">National Film Preservation Foundation</div><div class="three-column-analysis-style-content-right">5701</div></div> </div> <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <!-- field-end:analysis --> <!-- documentid:36_-ch1 currentthrough:19970106 documentPDFPage:2 --> <!-- itempath:/360/CHAPTER 1 --> <!-- itemsortkey:360AAAB --> <!-- expcite:TITLE 36-PATRIOTIC SOCIETIES AND OBSERVANCES!@!CHAPTER 1-AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS --> <!-- field-start:structuralhead --> <h3 class="chapter-head"><strong>CHAPTER 1&mdash;AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS</strong></h3> <!-- field-end:structuralhead --> <!-- field-start:analysis --> <div class="analysis"> <div><div class="analysis-head-left">Sec.</div></div> <div><div class="two-column-analysis-style-content-left">1.</div><div class="two-column-analysis-style-content-right">Corporation created.</div></div> <div><div class="two-column-analysis-style-content-left">1a.</div><div class="two-column-analysis-style-content-right">Continuation of corporation.</div></div> <div><div class="two-column-analysis-style-content-left">2.</div><div class="two-column-analysis-style-content-right">Name and powers of corporation.</div></div> <div><div class="two-column-analysis-style-content-left">3.</div><div class="two-column-analysis-style-content-right">Purposes of corporation.</div></div> <div><div class="two-column-analysis-style-content-left">4.</div><div class="two-column-analysis-style-content-right" id="wide">Repealed.</div></div> <div><div class="two-column-analysis-style-content-left">4a.</div><div class="two-column-analysis-style-content-right">Membership; status of chapters; rules and regulations governing chapters; election of officers.</div></div> <div><div class="two-column-analysis-style-content-left">5.</div><div class="two-column-analysis-style-content-right">Board of Governors; number; election; tenure; filling vacancies; annual meetings; voting by proxy.</div></div> <div><div class="two-column-analysis-style-content-left">6.</div><div class="two-column-analysis-style-content-right">Annual report; audit of financial transactions.</div></div> <div><div class="two-column-analysis-style-content-left">7.</div><div class="two-column-analysis-style-content-right">Reimbursement of Department of Defense for auditing expenses.</div></div> <div><div class="two-column-analysis-style-content-left">8.</div><div class="two-column-analysis-style-content-right">Reservation of right to amend or repeal certain sections.</div></div> <div><div class="two-column-analysis-style-content-left">9.</div><div class="two-column-analysis-style-content-right">Endowment fund.</div></div> <div><div class="two-column-analysis-style-content-left">10 to 12.</div><div class="two-column-analysis-style-content-right" id="wide">Repealed.</div></div> <div><div class="two-column-analysis-style-content-left">13.</div><div class="two-column-analysis-style-content-right">Permanent building at headquarters in Washington, D.C.</div></div> <div><div class="two-column-analysis-style-content-left">14.</div><div class="two-column-analysis-style-content-right" id="wide">Omitted.</div></div> <div><div class="two-column-analysis-style-content-left">15.</div><div class="two-column-analysis-style-content-right">Memorial building to Women of World War I; expenditures; supervision.</div></div> <div><div class="two-column-analysis-style-content-left">16.</div><div class="two-column-analysis-style-content-right">Exchange of Government-owned cotton for articles containing wool.</div></div> <div><div class="two-column-analysis-style-content-left" id="wide">17 to 17b. Repealed.</div></div> </div> <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <!-- field-end:analysis --> <!-- field-start:notes --> <!-- field-start:crossreference-note --> <h4 class="note-head">Cross References</h4> <p class="note-body">Operation of American Red Cross vessels under Neutrality Act of 1939, see section 444 of Title 22, Foreign Relations and Intercourse.</p> <!-- field-end:crossreference-note --> <!-- field-end:notes --> <!-- field-start:secref --> <h4 class="note-head">Chapter Referred to in Other Sections</h4> <!-- field-end:secref --> <!-- field-start:sectionreferredto --> <p class="note-body">This chapter is referred to in title 42 section 5143.</p> <!-- field-end:sectionreferredto --> <!-- documentid:36_1 usckey:360000000000100000000000000000000 currentthrough:19970106 documentPDFPage:2 --> <!-- itempath:/360/CHAPTER 1/Sec. 1 --> <!-- itemsortkey:360AAAC --> <!-- expcite:TITLE 36-PATRIOTIC SOCIETIES AND OBSERVANCES!@!CHAPTER 1-AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS!@!Sec. 1 --> <!-- field-start:head --> <h3 class="section-head">&sect;1. Corporation created</h3> <!-- field-end:head --> <!-- field-start:statute --> <p class="statutory-body">Clara Barton, Hilary A. Herbert, Thomas F. Walsh, Charles C. Glover, Charles J. Bell, Mabel T. Boardman, George Dewey, William R. Day, Nelson A. Miles, James Tanner, William K. Van Reypen, John M. Wilson, Simon Wolf, James R. Garfield, Gifford Pinchot, S. W. Woodward, Mary A. Logan, Walter Wyman, of Washington, District of Columbia; George H. Shields, of Missouri; William H. Taft, F. B. Loomis, Samuel Mather, of Ohio; Spencer Trask, Robert C. Ogden, Cleveland H. Dodge, George C. Boldt, William T. Wardwell, John G. Carlisle, George B. McClellan, Elizabeth Mills Reid, Margaret Carnegie, of New York; John H. Converse, Alexander Mackay-Smith, J. Wilkes O'Neill, H. Kirke Porter, of Pennsylvania; Richard Olney, W. Murray Crane, Henry L. Higginson, William Draper, Frederick H. Gillett, of Massachusetts; Marshall Field, Robert T. Lincoln, Lambert Tree, of Illinois; A. G. Kaufman, of South Carolina; Alexander W. Terrell, of Texas; George Gray, of Delaware; Redfield Proctor, of Vermont; John W. Foster, Noble C. Butler, Robert W. Miers, of Indiana; John Sharp Williams, of Mississippi; William Alden Smith, of Michigan; Horace Davis, W. W. Morrow, of California; Daniel C. Gilman, Eugene Lovering, of Maryland; J. Taylor Ellyson, of Virginia; Daniel R. Noyes, of Minnesota; Emanuel Fiske, Marshall Fiske, of Connecticut, together with five other persons to be named by the President of the United States, one to be chosen from each of the Departments of State, War, Navy, Treasury, and Justice, their associates and successors, are created a body corporate and politic in the District of Columbia.</p> <!-- field-end:statute --> <!-- field-start:sourcecredit --> <p class="source-credit">(Jan. 5, 1905, ch. 23, &sect;1, 33 Stat. 599; July 26, 1947, ch. 343, title II, &sect;205(a), 61 Stat. 501.)</p> <!-- field-end:sourcecredit --> <!-- field-start:notes --> <!-- field-start:miscellaneous-note --> <h4 class="note-head">Preamble</h4> <p class="note-body">Act Jan. 5, 1905, as amended by act May 8, 1947, ch. 50, &sect;&sect;1, 2, 61 Stat. 80, provided:</p> <p class="note-body">&ldquo;Whereas on the twenty-second of August, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, at Geneva, Switzerland, plenipotentiaries respectively representing Italy, Baden, Belgium, Denmark, Spain, Portugal, France, Prussia, Saxony, and Wurttemberg and the Federal Council of Switzerland agreed upon ten articles of a treaty or convention for the purpose of mitigating the evils inseparable from war; of ameliorating the condition of soldiers wounded on the field of battle, and particularly providing, among other things, in effect, that persons employed in hospitals and in according relief to the <!-- PDFPage:3 -->sick and wounded and supplies for this purpose shall be deemed neutral and entitled to protection; and that a distinctive and uniform flag shall be adopted for hospitals and ambulances and convoys of sick and wounded and an arm badge for individuals neutralized; and</p> <p class="note-body">&ldquo;Whereas the said treaty has been revised and extended by a treaty or convention for the amelioration of the condition of the wounded and the sick of armies in the field, signed at Geneva, July 27, 1929, and adhered to by the United States of America, effective August 8, 1932; and</p> <p class="note-body">&ldquo;Whereas the International Conference of Geneva of eighteen hundred and sixty-three recommended &lsquo;that there exist in every country a committee whose mission consists in cooperating in times of war with the hospital service of the armies by all means in its power;&rsquo; and</p> <p class="note-body">&ldquo;Whereas a permanent organization is an agency needed in every nation to carry out the purposes of said treaties, and especially to secure supplies and to execute the humane objects contemplated by said treaties, with the power to adopt and use the distinctive flag and arm badge specified by said treaties, on which shall be the sign of the Red Cross, for the purpose of cooperating with the &lsquo;Comite�AE1 International de Secours aux Militaires Blesse�AE1s&rsquo; (International Committee of Relief for the Wounded in War); and</p> <p class="note-body">&ldquo;Whereas in accordance with the requirements and customs of said international body such an association adopting and using said insignia was formed in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, in July, eighteen hundred and eighty-one known as &lsquo;The American National Association of the Red Cross,&rsquo; reincorporated April seventeenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, under the laws of the District of Columbia, and reincorporated by Act of Congress in June, nineteen hundred; and</p> <p class="note-body">&ldquo;Whereas it is believed that the importance of the work demands a repeal of the present charter and a reincorporation of the society under Government supervision: Now, therefore,&rdquo;.</p> <!-- field-end:miscellaneous-note --> <!-- field-start:changeofname-note --> <h4 class="note-head">Change of Name</h4> <p class="note-body">Department of War designated Department of the Army and title of Secretary of War changed to Secretary of the Army by section 205(a) of act July 26, 1947, ch. 343, title II, 61 Stat. 501. Section 205(a) of act July 26, 1947, was repealed by section 53 of act Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 641. Section 1 of act Aug. 10, 1956, enacted &ldquo;Title 10, Armed Forces&rdquo; which in sections 3010 to 3013 continued Department of the Army under administrative supervision of Secretary of the Army.</p> <!-- field-end:changeofname-note --> <!-- field-end:notes --> <!-- field-start:secref --> <h4 class="note-head">Section Referred to in Other Sections</h4> <!-- field-end:secref --> <!-- field-start:sectionreferredto --> <p class="note-body">This section is referred to in sections 1a, 2, 8 of this title.</p> <!-- field-end:sectionreferredto --> <!-- documentid:36_1a usckey:360000000000100000000000a00000000 currentthrough:19970106 documentPDFPage:3 --> <!-- itempath:/360/CHAPTER 1/Sec. 1a --> <!-- itemsortkey:360AAAD --> <!-- expcite:TITLE 36-PATRIOTIC SOCIETIES AND OBSERVANCES!@!CHAPTER 1-AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS!@!Sec. 1a --> <!-- field-start:head --> <h3 class="section-head">&sect;1a. Continuation of corporation</h3> <!-- field-end:head --> <!-- field-start:statute --> <p class="statutory-body">The corporation now existing as The American National Red Cross under sections 1, 2 to 6, 8, and 9 of this title shall continue as a body corporate and politic in the District of Columbia. The first national convention after May 8, 1947, shall be convened and held under rules and regulations prescribed by the governing body of the corporation as presently constituted. After such first national convention, the Board of Governors of the corporation from time to time shall constitute the associates and successors of the incorporators named in said sections, and neither the said incorporators nor any associates or successors theretofore designated by them or by their successors shall have any powers or duties.</p> <!-- field-end:statute --> <!-- field-start:sourcecredit --> <p class="source-credit">(May 8, 1947, ch. 50, &sect;8, 61 Stat. 83.)</p> <!-- field-end:sourcecredit --> <!-- documentid:36_2 usckey:360000000000200000000000000000000 currentthrough:19970106 documentPDFPage:3 --> <!-- itempath:/360/CHAPTER 1/Sec. 2 --> <!-- itemsortkey:360AAAE --> <!-- expcite:TITLE 36-PATRIOTIC SOCIETIES AND OBSERVANCES!@!CHAPTER 1-AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS!@!Sec. 2 --> <!-- field-start:head --> <h3 class="section-head">&sect;2. Name and powers of corporation</h3> <!-- field-end:head --> <!-- field-start:statute --> <p class="statutory-body">The name of this corporation shall be &ldquo;The American National Red Cross&rdquo;, and by that name it shall have perpetual succession, with the power to sue and be sued in courts of law and equity, State or Federal, within the jurisdiction of the United States; to have and to hold such real and personal estate as shall be deemed advisable and to dispose of the same, to accept gifts, devises, and bequests of real and personal estate for the purposes of this corporation hereinafter set forth; to adopt a seal and the same to alter and destroy at pleasure; and to have the right to have and to use, in carrying out its purposes hereinafter designated, as an emblem and badge, a Greek red cross on a white ground, as the same has been described in the treaties of Geneva, August twenty-second, eighteen hundred and sixty-four and July twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and twenty-nine, and adopted by the several nations acceding thereto; to ordain and establish bylaws and regulations not inconsistent with the laws of the United States of America or any State thereof, and generally to do all such acts and things as may be necessary to carry into effect the provisions of sections 1, 2 to 6, 8, and 9 of this title and promote the purposes of said organization; and the corporation created is designated as the organization which is authorized to act in matters of relief under said treaties. In accordance with the said treaties, the delivery of the brassard allowed for individuals neutralized in time of war shall be left to military authority.</p> <!-- field-end:statute --> <!-- field-start:sourcecredit --> <p class="source-credit">(Jan. 5, 1905, ch. 23, &sect;2, 33 Stat. 600; May 8, 1947, ch. 50, &sect;3, 61 Stat. 81.)</p> <!-- field-end:sourcecredit --> <!-- field-start:notes --> <!-- field-start:amendment-note --> <h4 class="note-head">Amendments</h4> <p class="note-body">1947&mdash;Act May 8, 1947, increased certain powers of corporation to accept gifts and devises of real estate.</p> <!-- field-end:amendment-note --> <!-- field-start:crossreference-note --> <h4 class="note-head">Cross References</h4> <p class="note-body">Licenses for erection and use of buildings on military installations, see section 2670 of Title 10, Armed Forces.</p> <p class="note-body">Loan of equipment needed for instruction and practice to organization formed by Red Cross aiding armed forces in war time, see section 2542 of Title 10.</p> <!-- field-end:crossreference-note --> <!-- field-end:notes --> <!-- field-start:secref --> <h4 class="note-head">Section Referred to in Other Sections</h4> <!-- field-end:secref --> <!-- field-start:sectionreferredto --> <p class="note-body">This section is referred to in sections 1a, 8 of this title.</p> <!-- field-end:sectionreferredto --> <!-- documentid:36_3 usckey:360000000000300000000000000000000 currentthrough:19970106 documentPDFPage:3 --> <!-- itempath:/360/CHAPTER 1/Sec. 3 --> <!-- itemsortkey:360AAAF --> <!-- expcite:TITLE 36-PATRIOTIC SOCIETIES AND OBSERVANCES!@!CHAPTER 1-AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS!@!Sec. 3 --> <!-- field-start:head --> <h3 class="section-head">&sect;3. Purposes of corporation</h3> <!-- field-end:head --> <!-- field-start:statute --> <p class="statutory-body">The purposes of the corporation are and shall be&mdash;</p> <p class="statutory-body">First. To furnish volunteer aid to the sick and wounded of Armed Forces in time of war, in accordance with the spirit and conditions of the conference of Geneva of October, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, and also of the treaties of the Red Cross, or the treaties of Geneva, of August twenty-second, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, and July twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and twenty-nine, to which the United States of America has given its adhesion, and also of any other treaty or convention similar in purpose to which the United States of America may hereafter give its adhesion.</p> <p class="statutory-body">Second. And for said purposes to perform all the duties devolved upon a national society by each nation which has acceded to any of said treaties or conventions.</p> <!-- PDFPage:4 --><p class="statutory-body">Third. To succeed to all the rights and property which were prior to January 5, 1905, held and to all the duties which were prior to January 5, 1905, performed by the American National Red Cross as a corporation duly incorporated by Act of Congress June 6, 1900, which Act is repealed and the organization created thereby is dissolved.</p> <p class="statutory-body">Fourth. To act in matters of voluntary relief and in accord with the military authorities as a medium of communication between the people of the United States of America and their Armed Forces, and to act in such matters between similar national societies of other governments through the &ldquo;Comite�AE1 International de Secours&rdquo;, and the Government and the people and the Armed Forces of the United States of America.</p> <p class="statutory-body">Fifth. And to continue and carry on a system of national and international relief in time of peace and apply the same in mitigating the sufferings caused by pestilence, famine, fire, floods, and other great national calamities, and to devise and carry on measures for preventing the same.</p> <!-- field-end:statute --> <!-- field-start:sourcecredit --> <p class="source-credit">(Jan. 5, 1905, ch. 23, &sect;3, 33 Stat. 600; May 8, 1947, ch. 50, &sect;4, 61 Stat. 81; July 17, 1953, ch. 222, &sect;4(a), (b), 67 Stat. 179.)</p> <!-- field-end:sourcecredit --> <!-- field-start:notes --> <!-- field-start:referenceintext-note --> <h4 class="note-head">References in Text</h4> <p class="note-body">Act of Congress June 6, 1900, referred to in text, is act June 6, 1900, ch. 784, 31 Stat. 277, which is not classified to the Code.</p> <!-- field-end:referenceintext-note --> <!-- field-start:amendment-note --> <h4 class="note-head">Amendments</h4> <p class="note-body">1953&mdash;Act July 17, 1953, in first par. substituted &ldquo;Armed Forces&rdquo; for &ldquo;armies&rdquo; and, in fourth par. substituted &ldquo;Armed Forces&rdquo; for &ldquo;Army and Navy&rdquo; and struck out &ldquo;and naval&rdquo; after &ldquo;military&rdquo;.</p> <p class="note-body">1947&mdash;Act May 8, 1947, included the treaty of July 27, 1929, in first and second pars.</p> <!-- field-end:amendment-note --> <!-- field-start:crossreference-note --> <h4 class="note-head">Cross References</h4> <p class="note-body">Cooperation and assistance to armed forces, see section 2602 of Title 10, Armed Forces.</p> <p class="note-body">Operation of American Red Cross vessels under Neutrality Act of 1939, see section 444 of Title 22, Foreign Relations and Intercourse.</p> <!-- field-end:crossreference-note --> <!-- field-end:notes --> <!-- field-start:secref --> <h4 class="note-head">Section Referred to in Other Sections</h4> <!-- field-end:secref --> <!-- field-start:sectionreferredto --> <p class="note-body">This section is referred to in sections 1a, 2, 8 of this title.</p> <!-- field-end:sectionreferredto --> <!-- documentid:36_4 usckey:360000000000400000000000000000000 currentthrough:19970106 documentPDFPage:4 --> <!-- itempath:/360/CHAPTER 1/Sec. 4 --> <!-- itemsortkey:360AAAG --> <!-- expcite:TITLE 36-PATRIOTIC SOCIETIES AND OBSERVANCES!@!CHAPTER 1-AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS!@!Sec. 4 --> <!-- field-start:repealedhead --> <h3 class="section-head">&sect;4. Repealed. June 25, 1948, ch. 645, &sect;21, 62 Stat. 862</h3> <!-- field-end:repealedhead --> <!-- field-start:repealsummary --> <p class="note-body">Section, acts Jan. 5, 1905, ch. 23, &sect;4, 33 Stat. 600; June 23, 1910, ch. 372, &sect;1, 36 Stat. 604, related to fraudulent representation or use of insignia. See sections 1, 706 and 917 of Title 18, Crimes and Criminal Procedure.</p> <!-- field-end:repealsummary --> <!-- field-start:notes --> <!-- field-start:effectivedate-repeal-note --> <h4 class="note-head">Effective Date of Repeal</h4> <p class="note-body">Repeal effective Sept. 1, 1948, see section 20 of act June 25, 1948, set out as an Effective Date note preceding section 1 of Title 18, Crimes and Criminal Procedure.</p> <!-- field-end:effectivedate-repeal-note --> <!-- field-end:notes --> <!-- documentid:36_4a usckey:360000000000400000000000a00000000 currentthrough:19970106 documentPDFPage:4 --> <!-- itempath:/360/CHAPTER 1/Sec. 4a --> <!-- itemsortkey:360AAAH --> <!-- expcite:TITLE 36-PATRIOTIC SOCIETIES AND OBSERVANCES!@!CHAPTER 1-AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS!@!Sec. 4a --> <!-- field-start:head --> <h3 class="section-head">&sect;4a. Membership; status of chapters; rules and regulations governing chapters; election of officers</h3> <!-- field-end:head --> <!-- field-start:statute --> <p class="statutory-body">Membership in the American National Red Cross shall be open to all the people of the United States, its Territories, and dependencies, upon payment of the sums specified from time to time in the bylaws.</p> <p class="statutory-body">The chapters of the American National Red Cross shall be the local units of the corporation within the States and Territories of the United States. The regulations with respect to the granting of charters to the chapters and the revocation of the same, the territorial jurisdiction of the chapters, the relationship of the chapters to the corporation and compliance by the chapters with the policies and rules of the corporation, shall be as determined from time to time by the Board of Governors. Such regulations shall require that each chapter shall, in the election of the governing body of the chapter and in the selection of delegates to the national convention of the corporation, adhere to democratic principles of election as specified in the bylaws.</p> <!-- field-end:statute --> <!-- field-start:sourcecredit --> <p class="source-credit">(Jan. 5, 1905, ch. 23, &sect;4a, as added May 8, 1947, ch. 50, &sect;5, 61 Stat. 81.)</p> <!-- field-end:sourcecredit --> <!-- field-start:secref --> <h4 class="note-head">Section Referred to in Other Sections</h4> <!-- field-end:secref --> <!-- field-start:sectionreferredto --> <p class="note-body">This section is referred to in sections 1a, 2, 8 of this title.</p> <!-- field-end:sectionreferredto --> <!-- documentid:36_5 usckey:360000000000500000000000000000000 currentthrough:19970106 documentPDFPage:4 --> <!-- itempath:/360/CHAPTER 1/Sec. 5 --> <!-- itemsortkey:360AAAI --> <!-- expcite:TITLE 36-PATRIOTIC SOCIETIES AND OBSERVANCES!@!CHAPTER 1-AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS!@!Sec. 5 --> <!-- field-start:head --> <h3 class="section-head">&sect;5. Board of Governors; number; election; tenure; filling vacancies; annual meetings; voting by proxy</h3> <!-- field-end:head --> <!-- field-start:statute --> <p class="statutory-body">The governing body of the corporation in which all powers of government, direction, and management of the corporation shall be lodged, shall consist of a Board of Governors numbering fifty persons, to be appointed or elected in the manner following, namely:</p> <p class="statutory-body">(a) Eight Governors shall be appointed by the President of the United States. Of the Governors so appointed, one shall be designated by the President of the United States to act as the principal officer of the corporation with such title and such functions as may from time to time be prescribed in the byl…

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