36 U.S.C. § 21705 — Exclusive right to name, emblems, and badges

submitted 28 years ago by Pub. L. 105-225 to r/title-36-PATRIOTIC-AND-NATIONAL-OBSERVANCES-CEREMONIES-AND-ORGANIZATIONS · 43 words · no verdicts yet

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Only the corporation and its state and local branches may use the name "The American Legion." The corporation alone controls its emblems and badges. It decides who can make and use them.

This section gives the corporation two exclusive rights. First, the corporation and its State and local subdivisions are the only ones allowed to use the name "The American Legion" or "American Legion." Second, the corporation alone has the exclusive right to use any emblems and badges it adopts, to manufacture them, and to control who else is allowed to manufacture them.

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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.

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

history & why it existsrecord from the source credit

1998Enacted · Pub. L. 105-225 · 112 Stat. 1298

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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