---
kind: "section"
citation: "36 U.S.C. § 153104"
title: "36"
title_heading: "Patriotic and National Observances, Ceremonies, and Organizations"
number: "153104"
heading: "Exclusive right to name, seals, emblems, and badges"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/36/153104"
units:
  - "Subtitle II — Patriotic and National Organizations"
  - "Part B — Organizations"
  - "Chapter 1531 — The National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution"
---

# §153104. Exclusive right to name, seals, emblems, and badges


The [corporation](/usc/36/220501.md?p=b-7) and its subordinate divisions have the exclusive right to use the name “National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution”. The [corporation](/usc/36/220501.md?p=b-7) has the exclusive right to use and to allow others to use seals, emblems, and badges the [corporation](/usc/36/220501.md?p=b-7) adopts.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 105–225, Aug. 12, 1998, 112 Stat. 1423.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised<br>Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 153104 | 36:18c. | Feb. 20, 1896, ch. 23, § 4, as added Oct. 1, 1976, Pub. L. 94–443, § 2, 90 Stat. 1475. |

The word “sole” is omitted as included in “exclusive”. The words “the corporation adopts” are substituted for “as have heretofore been adopted or used by the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution” for consistency in the revised title.