---
kind: "section"
citation: "36 U.S.C. § 230306"
title: "36"
title_heading: "Patriotic and National Observances, Ceremonies, and Organizations"
number: "230306"
heading: "Exclusive right to name, seals, emblems, and badges"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/36/230306"
units:
  - "Subtitle II — Patriotic and National Organizations"
  - "Part B — Organizations"
  - "Chapter 2303 — Veterans of World War I of the United States of America, Incorporated"
---

# §230306. 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 “Veterans of World War I of the United States of America, Incorporated”. 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. 1484.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised<br>Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 230306 | 36:777. | July 18, 1958, Pub. L. 85–530, § 17, 72 Stat. 374. |

The words “sole”, “or refuse”, and “and such emblems, seals, and badges as have heretofore been used by the Ohio corporation described in section 778 of this title” are omitted as unnecessary. The words “and the right to which may be lawfully transferred to the corporation” are omitted as executed.