---
kind: "section"
citation: "36 U.S.C. § 70907"
title: "36"
title_heading: "Patriotic and National Observances, Ceremonies, and Organizations"
number: "70907"
heading: "Exclusive right to name,1 seals, emblems, and badges"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/36/70907"
units:
  - "Subtitle II — Patriotic and National Organizations"
  - "Part B — Organizations"
  - "Chapter 709 — Future Farmers of America"
---

# §70907. Exclusive right to name,1 seals, emblems, and badges


The FFA and its authorized chapters and associations of chapters have the exclusive right to use the names “Future Farmers of America” and “National FFA Organization,”[^2] and the initials FFA as representing an agricultural education membership organization and seals, emblems, and badges the FFA adopts.


## Footnotes

[^1]: So in original. Probably should be “names”.
[^2]: So in original. The comma preceding the closing quotation marks probably should not appear.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 105–225, Aug. 12, 1998, 112 Stat. 1358; Pub. L. 116–7, § 8, Feb. 21, 2019, 133 Stat. 481.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised<br>Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 70907 | 36:286. | Aug. 30, 1950, ch. 823, § 16, 64 Stat. 566. |

The words “duly”, “sole”, and “lawfully” are omitted as unnecessary.

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2019—Pub. L. 116–7 substituted “FFA” for “corporation” in two places, “names” for “name”, and “ ‘Future Farmers of America’ and ‘National FFA Organization,’ ” for “ ‘Future Farmers of America’ ” and inserted “education” before “membership”.