(a) Federal Charter.—Military Order of the Purple Heart of the United States of America, Incorporated (in this chapter, the "corporation"), is a federally chartered corporation.

(b) Place of Incorporation and Domicile.—The corporation is declared to be incorporated and domiciled in the District of Columbia.

(c) Perpetual Existence.—Except as otherwise provided, the corporation has perpetual existence.

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Section

Source (U.S. Code) Source (Statutes at Large)
140501 36:821. Aug. 26, 1958, Pub. L. 85–761, §§1, 2, 4(1), 72 Stat. 854, 856.
  36:822.

36:824(1).

This section is substituted for the source provisions for consistency in the revised title and to eliminate executed and unnecessary words.


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