---
kind: "section"
citation: "36 U.S.C. § 152401"
title: "36"
title_heading: "Patriotic and National Observances, Ceremonies, and Organizations"
number: "152401"
heading: "Organization"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/36/152401"
units:
  - "Subtitle II — Patriotic and National Organizations"
  - "Part B — Organizations"
  - "Chapter 1524 — National Recording Preservation Foundation"
---

# §152401. Organization

- (a) **Federal Charter.—** The National Recording Preservation Foundation (in this chapter, the “[corporation](/usc/36/220501.md?p=b-7)”) is a federally chartered [corporation](/usc/36/220501.md?p=b-7).
- (b) **Nature of Corporation.—** The [corporation](/usc/36/220501.md?p=b-7) is a charitable and nonprofit [corporation](/usc/36/220501.md?p=b-7) and is not an agency or establishment of the United States Government.
- (c) **Perpetual Existence.—** Except as otherwise provided, the [corporation](/usc/36/220501.md?p=b-7) has perpetual existence.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 106–474, title II, § 201(a), Nov. 9, 2000, 114 Stat. 2091.)