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36 U.S.C. 200306: Exclusive right to name, seals, emblems, and badgesText contains those laws in effect through Public Law 119-120 (October 7, 2026).
From Title 36-PATRIOTIC AND NATIONAL OBSERVANCES, CEREMONIES, AND ORGANIZATIONSCHAPTER 2003-SONS OF UNION VETERANS OF THE CIVIL WAR
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§200306. Exclusive right to name, seals, emblems, and badges

The corporation and its subordinate divisions have the exclusive right to use the name “Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War”. The corporation has the exclusive right to use and to allow others to use seals, emblems, and badges the corporation adopts.

( Pub. L. 105–225 , Aug. 12, 1998 , 112 Stat. 1454 .)

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200306

36:547.

Aug. 20, 1954, ch. 774, § 17, 68 Stat. 752.

The words “sole” and “or refuse” are omitted as unnecessary. The words “corporation adopts” are substituted for “as it may legally adopt” for consistency in the revised title and to eliminate unnecessary words. The words “and such emblems, seals, and badges as have heretofore been used by the Illinois corporation described in section 548 of this title and the right to which may be lawfully transferred to the corporation” are omitted as executed and obsolete.