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 PUBLIC LAW 105-225—AUG. 12, 1998 112 STAT. 1371 allow assets to be distributed to an officer or employee or to inure to the benefit of a private person. CHAPTER 1201—[RESERVED] CHAPTER 1301—LADIES OF THE GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC Sec. 130101. Organization. 130102. Purposes. 130103. Membership. 130104. Governing body. 130105. Powers. 130106. Exclusive right to name, seals, emblems, and badges. 130107. Restrictions. 130108. Principal office. 130109. Records and inspection. 130110. Service of process. 130111. Liability for acts of officers and agents. 130112. Annual report. 130113. Distribution of assets on dissolution or final liquidation. §130101. Organization (a) FEDERAL CHARTER. —Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic (in this chapter, the "corporation") is a federally chartered corporation. (b) PLACE OF INCORPORATION AND DOMICILE.— The corporation is declared to be incorporated and domiciled in the District of Columbia. (c) PERPETUAL EXISTENCE.— Except as otherwise provided, the corporation has perpetual existence. §130102. Purposes The purposes of the corporation are— (1) to perpetuate the memory of the Grand Army of the Republic and of the men who saved the Union in 1861 to 1865; (2) to assist in every practicable way in preserving, and making available for research, documents and records pertaining to the Grand Army of the Republic and its members; (3) to cooperate in doing honor to all those who have served our country patriotically in any way; (4) to teach patriotism, the duties of citizenship, the true history of our country, and the love and honor of our flag; (5) to oppose every tendency or movement that would weaken loyalty to, destroy, or impair our constitutional Union; and (6) to inculcate and broadly sustain the American principles of representative government, equal rights, and impartial justice for all. §130103. Membership (a) ELIGIBILITY. — (1) Except as provided in this chapter, eligibility for membership in the corporation and the rights, privileges, and designation of classes of members are as provided in the constitution and bylaws of the corporation. (2) Eligibility for membership is limited to female blood relatives of an individual who— (A) served at any time during the period April 12, 1861, through April 9, 1865, as a soldier or sailor in—

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