---
kind: "section"
citation: "36 U.S.C. § 300106"
title: "36"
title_heading: "Patriotic and National Observances, Ceremonies, and Organizations"
number: "300106"
heading: "Emblem, badge, and brassard"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/36/300106"
units:
  - "Subtitle III — Treaty Obligation Organizations"
  - "Chapter 3001 — The American National Red Cross"
---

# §300106. Emblem, badge, and brassard

- (a) **Emblem and Badge.—** In carrying out its purposes under this chapter, the [corporation](/usc/36/220501.md?p=b-7) may have and use, as an emblem and badge, a Greek red cross on a white ground, as described in the treaties of Geneva, August 22, 1864, July 27, 1929, and August 12, 1949, and adopted by the nations acceding to those treaties.
- (b) **Delivery of Brassard.—** In accordance with those treaties, the delivery of the brassard allowed for individuals neutralized in time of war shall be left to military authority.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 105–225, Aug. 12, 1998, 112 Stat. 1492.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised<br>Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 300106(a) | 36:2 (1st sentence words between 3d and 4th semicolons). | Jan. 5, 1905, ch. 23, § 2 (1st sentence words between 3d and 4th semicolons, last sentence), 33 Stat. 600; May 8, 1947, ch. 50, § 3, 61 Stat. 81. |
| 300106(b) | 36:2 (last sentence). |  |

In subsection (a), the words “under this chapter” are substituted for “hereinafter designated” for clarity. The date “August 12, 1949” is added to include the reference to a subsequent treaty.