1997 US Code
Title 36 - PATRIOTIC SOCIETIES AND OBSERVANCES
CHAPTER 85 - NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED STATES
Sec. 5309 - Charter

The charter, constitution, and by-laws of the National Educational Association shall continue in full force and effect until the charter granted by this chapter shall be accepted by such association at the next annual meeting of the association, and until new by-laws shall be adopted, and the present officers, directors, and trustees of said association shall continue to hold office and perform their respective duties as such until the expiration of the terms for which they were severally elected or appointed, and until their successors are elected. At such annual meeting the active members of the National Educational Association then present may organize and proceed to accept the charter granted by this chapter and adopt by-laws, to elect officers to succeed those whose terms have expired or are about to expire, and generally to organize the “National Education Association of the United States,” and the board of trustees of the corporation hereby incorporated shall thereupon, if the charter granted by this chapter be accepted, receive, take over, and enter into possession, custody, and management of all property, real and personal, of the corporation heretofore known as the National Educational Association, incorporated as aforesaid under the Revised Statutes of the District of Columbia, and all its rights, contracts, claims, and property of every kind and nature whatsoever; and the several officers, directors, and trustees of such last-named association, or any other person having charge of any of the securities, funds, books, or property thereof, real or personal, shall on demand deliver the same to the proper officers, directors, or trustees of the corporation hereby created: Provided, That a verified certificate executed by the presiding officer and secretary of such annual meeting, showing the acceptance of the charter granted by this chapter by the National Educational Association shall be legal evidence of the fact, when filed with the recorder of deeds of the District of Columbia: And provided further, That in the event of the failure of the association to accept the charter granted by this chapter at said annual meeting, then the charter of the National Educational Association and its corporate existence shall be, and are hereby, extended until the thirty-first day of July, nineteen hundred and eight, and at any time before said date its charter may be extended in the manner and form provided by the general corporation law of the District of Columbia.

(June 30, 1906, ch. 3929, §9, 34 Stat. 807.)