---
kind: "section"
citation: "36 U.S.C. § 30302"
title: "36"
title_heading: "Patriotic and National Observances, Ceremonies, and Organizations"
number: "30302"
heading: "Purposes"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/36/30302"
units:
  - "Subtitle II — Patriotic and National Organizations"
  - "Part B — Organizations"
  - "Chapter 303 — Blinded Veterans Association"
---

# §30302. Purposes


The purposes of the [corporation](/usc/36/220501.md?p=b-7) are—

- (1) to operate as a not-for-profit [corporation](/usc/36/220501.md?p=b-7) exclusively for charitable, educational, patriotic, and civic improvement purposes;
- (2) to promote the welfare of blinded veterans so that, notwithstanding their disabilities, they may take their rightful place in the community and work with their fellow citizens toward the creation of a peaceful world;
- (3) to preserve and strengthen a spirit of fellowship among blinded veterans so that they may give mutual aid and assistance to one another; and
- (4) to maintain and extend the institutions of American freedom and to encourage loyalty to the Constitution and laws of the United States and of the States in which they reside.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 105–225, Aug. 12, 1998, 112 Stat. 1317.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised<br>Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 30302 | 36:853(1)–(3), (4) (less words between 1st comma and semicolon). | Aug. 27, 1958, Pub. L. 85–769, § 3(1)–(3), (4) (less words between 1st comma and semicolon), 72 Stat. 924. |

In clause (1), the words “to operate as a not-for-profit corporation” are substituted for “To be organized and operated as a corporation not for profit . . . and such corporation is organized and shall be operated” in 36:853(4) to eliminate unnecessary words.