1997 US Code
Title 36 - PATRIOTIC SOCIETIES AND OBSERVANCES
CHAPTER 5A - LADIES OF THE GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC
Sec. 78d - Membership; voting rights
View MetadataPublication Title | United States Code, 1994 Edition, Supplement 3, Title 36 - PATRIOTIC SOCIETIES AND OBSERVANCES |
Category | Bills and Statutes |
Collection | United States Code |
SuDoc Class Number | Y 1.2/5: |
Contained Within | Title 36 - PATRIOTIC SOCIETIES AND OBSERVANCES CHAPTER 5A - LADIES OF THE GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC Sec. 78d - Membership; voting rights |
Contains | section 78d |
Date | 1997 |
Laws in Effect as of Date | January 26, 1998 |
Positive Law | No |
Disposition | standard |
Source Credit | Pub. L. 86-47, §5, June 17, 1959, 73 Stat. 78. |
Statutes at Large References | 38 Stat. 800 63 Stat. 561 73 Stat. 78 |
Public Law Reference | Public Law 86-47 |
§78d. Membership; voting rights
(a) Eligibility for membership in the corporation and the rights, privileges, and designation of classes of membership shall, except as provided in this chapter, be determined as the constitution and bylaws of the corporation may provide. Eligibility for membership in the corporation shall be limited to female blood relatives of persons who served between April 12, 1861, and April 9, 1865, as soldiers or sailors of the United States Army, Navy, Marine Corps, or Revenue-Cutter Service, and of such State regiments as were called into active service and were subject to orders of United States general officers between the dates above mentioned and were honorably discharged therefrom at the close of such service or who died in such service.
(b) Each member of the corporation shall have the right to one vote in each matter submitted to a vote at all meetings of the members of the corporation.
(Pub. L. 86–47, §5, June 17, 1959, 73 Stat. 78.)
Revenue Cutter ServiceCoast Guard established in lieu of Revenue Cutter Service and Life-Saving Service by act Jan. 28, 1915, ch. 20, §1, 38 Stat. 800. That act was repealed by act Aug. 4, 1949, ch. 393, §20, 63 Stat. 561, section 1 of which reestablished the Coast Guard by enacting Title 14, Coast Guard.
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