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 PUBLIC LAW 10&-225—AUG. 12, 1998 112 STAT. 1415 CHAPTER 1625—NATIONAL SAFETY COUNCIL Sec. 152501. Organization. 152502. Purposes. 152503. Membership. 152504. Governing body. i 152505. Powers. 152506. Exclusive right to name, seals, emblems, and badges. 152507. Restrictions. 152508. Principal office. 152509. Records and inspection. 152510. Service of process. 152511. Liability for acts of officers and agents. 152512. Distribution of assets on dissolution or final liquidation. §152501. Organization (a) FEDERAL CHARTER.— National Safety Council (in this chapter, the "corporation") is a federally chartered corporation. (b) PERPETUAL EXISTENCE. — Except as otherwise provided, the corporation has perpetual existence. § 152502. Purposes The purposes of the corporation are— (1) to further, encourage, and promote methods and procedures leading to increased safety, protection, and health among employees, employers, and children in industries, on farms, in schools and colleges, in homes, on streets and highways, in recreation, and in other public and private places; (2) to collect, correlate, publish, and disseminate educational and informative reports and all other data related to safety methods and procedures; (3) to arouse and maintain the interest of the people of the United States and its territories and possessions in safety and accident prevention, and to encourage the adoption and institution of safety methods by all individuals, corporations, and other organizations; (4) to organize, establish, and conduct programs, lectures, conferences, and other activities for the education of all individuals, corporations, and other organizations in safety methods and procedures; (5) to organize and aid in organizing local safety chapters throughout the United States and its territories and possessions, and to provide organizational guidance and materials to promote the national safety; (6) to cooperate with, enlist, and develop the cooperation of and among all individuals, corporations, and other organizations and agencies, public and private, engaged in, interested in, or in any manner connected with, any of these purposes; and (7) to do any lawful acts necessary, useful, suitable, desirable, and proper for the furtherance and accomplishment of any of these purposes. §152503. Membership (a) ELIGIBILITY. —Except as provided in this chapter, eligibility for membership in the corporation and the rights and privileges of members are as provided in the constitution and bylaws of the corporation. (b) VOTING. — Each member (except an honorary or sustaining member) has one vote on each matter submitted to a vote at

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