36 USC 21705: Exclusive right to name, emblems, and badges
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36 USC 21705: Exclusive right to name, emblems, and badges Text contains those laws in effect on November 21, 2024
From Title 36-PATRIOTIC AND NATIONAL OBSERVANCES, CEREMONIES, AND ORGANIZATIONSSubtitle II-Patriotic and National OrganizationsPart B-OrganizationsCHAPTER 217-THE AMERICAN LEGION
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§21705. Exclusive right to name, emblems, and badges

The corporation and its State and local subdivisions have the exclusive right to use the name "The American Legion" or "American Legion". The corporation has the exclusive right to use, manufacture, and control the right to manufacture, emblems and badges the corporation adopts.

( Pub. L. 105–225, Aug. 12, 1998, 112 Stat. 1298 .)

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Source (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large)
21705 36:44 (words between 4th and 5th semicolons). Sept. 16, 1919, ch. 59, §§4 (words between 4th and 5th semicolons), 8, 41 Stat. 285 ; June 26, 1953, ch. 153, 67 Stat. 82 .
  36:48.  

The word "sole" is omitted as included in "exclusive". The words "to have and", "in carrying out its purposes", and "in carrying out the purposes of the corporation" are omitted as unnecessary.