36 U.S.C. § 300102 — Purposes
submitted 28 years ago by Pub. L. 105-225 to r/title-36-PATRIOTIC-AND-NATIONAL-OBSERVANCES-CEREMONIES-AND-ORGANIZATIONS · 266 words · no verdicts yet
The Red Cross exists to provide volunteer wartime aid to sick and wounded troops under the Geneva treaties, and to act as a go-between for the U.S. military, government, and people during relief efforts. It also runs peacetime national and international relief for disasters like fires, floods, and famine, working to prevent them too.
The corporation's purposes are:
(1) to provide volunteer aid in time of war to the sick and wounded members of the Armed Forces, following the spirit and terms of: (A) the Geneva conference of October 1863; (B) the Red Cross treaties, also called the Geneva treaties, of August 22, 1864, July 27, 1929, and August 12, 1949, which the United States has joined; and (C) any similar treaty, convention, or protocol the United States has joined or may join;
(2) in doing the work described in paragraph (1), to carry out all the duties that each nation which has joined those treaties gives to its own national Red Cross society;
(3) to act, in matters of voluntary relief, alongside the military as a channel of communication between the American people and the U.S. Armed Forces, and to do the same between similar national societies of other countries' governments and the U.S. government, people, and Armed Forces, working through the International Committee of the Red Cross;
(4) to run a system of national and international relief during peacetime, and use that system to ease suffering from disease, famine, fire, floods, and other major disasters — and to design and carry out ways to prevent those disasters; and
(5) to carry out other activities consistent with these purposes.
The purposes of the corporation are—
to provide volunteer aid in time of war to the sick and wounded of the Armed Forces, in accordance with the spirit and conditions of—
the conference of Geneva of October 1863;
the treaties of the Red Cross, or the treaties of Geneva, August 22, 1864, July 27, 1929, and August 12, 1949, to which the United States of America has given its adhesion; and
any other treaty, convention, or protocol similar in purpose to which the United States of America has given or may give its adhesion;
in carrying out the purposes described in paragraph (1) of this section, to perform all the duties devolved on a national society by each nation that has acceded to any of those treaties, conventions, or protocols;
to act in matters of voluntary relief and in accordance with the military authorities as a medium of communication between the people of the United States and the Armed Forces of the United States and to act in those matters between similar national societies of governments of other countries through the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Government, the people, and the Armed Forces of the United States;
to carry out a system of national and international relief in time of peace, and to apply that system in mitigating the suffering caused by pestilence, famine, fire, floods, and other great national calamities, and to devise and carry out measures for preventing those calamities; and
to conduct other activities consistent with the foregoing purposes.
Source credit: (Pub. L. 105–225, Aug. 12, 1998, 112 Stat. 1490; Pub. L. 110–26, § 4, May 11, 2007, 121 Stat. 105.)
- 1998Enacted · Pub. L. 105-225 · 112 Stat. 1490
- 2007Amended · Pub. L. 110-26 · 121 Stat. 105
A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by Pub. L. 105-225 on 1998-08-12.
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