---
kind: "section"
citation: "36 U.S.C. § 230105"
title: "36"
title_heading: "Patriotic and National Observances, Ceremonies, and Organizations"
number: "230105"
heading: "Exclusive right to name, seal, emblems, and badges"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/36/230105"
units:
  - "Subtitle II — Patriotic and National Organizations"
  - "Part B — Organizations"
  - "Chapter 2301 — Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States"
---

# §230105. Exclusive right to name, seal, emblems, and badges


The [corporation](/usc/36/220501.md?p=b-7) has the exclusive right to use the name “Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States” and its corporate seal and to manufacture and use emblems and badges the [corporation](/usc/36/220501.md?p=b-7) adopts.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 105–225, Aug. 12, 1998, 112 Stat. 1482.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised<br>Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 230105 | 36:114 (words between 4th and 5th semicolons). | May 28, 1936, ch. 471, §§ 4 (words between 4th and 5th semicolons), 7, 49 Stat. 1391. |
|  | 36:117. |  |

The words “sole”, “to have and”, and “in carrying out its purposes” in 36:117 are omitted as unnecessary. The words “as may be deemed necessary in the fulfillment of the purposes of the corporation” are omitted as unnecessary.