Section 140702 - Organization(a) FEDERAL CHARTER.-Military Order of the World Wars (in this chapter, the "corporation"), a nonprofit corporation incorporated in the District of Columbia, is a federally chartered corporation.(b) EXPIRATION OF CHARTER.-The charter granted by this chapter expires if the corporation fails to comply with any provision of-(1) its bylaws or articles of incorporation;(3) the laws of the District of Columbia that apply to corporations such as the corporation recognized under this chapter. Pub. L. 105-225, 112 Stat. 1384.| HISTORICAL AND REVISION NOTES |
| Revised Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 140702(a) | 36:5001. | Oct. 23, 1992, Pub. L. 102-484, title XVIII, §§1801, 1815 (last sentence), 1816, 106 Stat. 2581, 2583. |
| 140702(b) | 36:5014 (last sentence).36:5015. | |
Subsection (a) is substituted for the source provision for consistency in the revised title.In subsection (b), the words "restriction or other" in 36:5015 are omitted as unnecessary. The text of 36:5014 (last sentence) is omitted as unnecessary because of clause (2) of the revised subsection.