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Timestamp: 2019-03-23 02:37:26
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Matched Legal Cases: ['§30901', '§1', '§30902', '§3', '§30903', '§5', '§30904', '§2', '§30905', '§7', '§30906', '§4', '§30907', '§6', '§30908', '§8', '§4']

CHAPTER 309—BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
Exclusive right to emblems, badges, marks, and words.
Annual and special meetings.
§30901. Organization
(a) Federal Charter.—Boy Scouts of America (in this chapter, the “corporation”) is a body corporate and politic of the District of Columbia.
(b) Domicile.—The domicile of the corporation is the District of Columbia.
30901 36:21. June 15, 1916, ch. 148, §§1, 2 (words before 2d comma), 39 Stat. 227.
36:22 (words before 2d comma).
§30902. Purposes
30902 36:23. June 15, 1916, ch. 148, §3, 39 Stat. 228.
§30903. Governing body
(a) Executive Board.—An executive board composed of citizens of the United States is the governing body of the corporation. The number, qualifications, and term of office of members of the board are as provided in the bylaws. A vacancy on the board shall be filled by a majority vote of the remaining members of the board.
(b) Quorum.—The bylaws may prescribe the number of members of the board necessary for a quorum. That number may be less than a majority of the entire board.
(c) Committees.—(1) The board, by resolution passed by a majority of the entire board, may designate 3 or more members of the board as an executive or governing committee. A majority of the committee is a quorum. The committee, to the extent provided in the resolution or bylaws, may—
(A) exercise the powers of the executive board in managing the activities of the corporation; and
(B) authorize the seal of the corporation to be affixed to papers that may require it.
(2) The board, by majority vote of the entire board, may appoint other standing committees. The standing committees may exercise powers as provided in the bylaws.
30903(a) 36:25 (1st–4th sentences). June 15, 1916, ch. 148, §5 (1st–5th, 7th, 8th sentences), 39 Stat. 228.
30903(b) 36:25 (5th sentence).
30903(c) 36:25 (7th, 8th sentences).
§30904. Powers
(1) adopt and amend bylaws and regulations, including regulations for the election of associates and successors;
(3) have offices and conduct its activities in the District of Columbia and the States, territories, and possessions of the United States;
(4) acquire and own property as necessary to carry out the purposes of the corporation;
(5) sue and be sued within the jurisdiction of the United States; and
(6) do any other act necessary to carry out this chapter and promote the purpose of the corporation.
(b) Limitations on Exercising Certain Powers.—(1) The corporation may execute mortgages and liens on the property of the corporation only if approved by a two-thirds vote of the entire executive board at a meeting called for that purpose.
(2) The corporation may dispose in any manner of the whole property of the corporation only with the written consent and affirmative vote of a majority of the members of the corporation.
30904(a) 36:22 (words after 2d comma). June 15, 1916, ch. 148, §§2 (words after 2d comma), 4 (words before semicolon), 5 (6th, last sentences), 39 Stat. 227, 228.
30904(b)(1) 36:25 (6th sentence).
30904(b)(2) 36:25 (last sentence).
Subsection (a)(4) is substituted for “hold such real and personal estate as shall be necessary for corporate purposes, and . . . receive real and personal property by gift, devise, or bequest” for consistency in the revised title and to eliminate unnecessary words. The text of 36:24 (words before semicolon) is omitted as executed and obsolete.
§30905. Exclusive right to emblems, badges, marks, and words
30905 36:27. June 15, 1916, ch. 148, §7, 39 Stat. 228.
§30906. Restrictions
(a) Profit.—The corporation may not operate for pecuniary profit to its members.
(b) Stocks and Dividends.—The corporation may not issue stock or declare or pay a dividend.
30906 36:24 (words after semicolon). June 15, 1916, ch. 148, §4 (words after semicolon), 39 Stat. 228.
The words “certificates of” and “its object and purposes being solely of a benevolent character” are omitted as unnecessary.
§30907. Annual and special meetings
(a) Annual Meetings.—The corporation shall hold an annual meeting at a time and place as provided in the bylaws. At the meeting, the annual reports of the officers and executive board shall be presented, and members of the board shall be elected for the next year.
(b) Special Meetings.—Special meetings of the corporation may be called on notice as provided in the bylaws.
(c) Quorum.—The number of members necessary for a quorum at an annual or special meeting shall be prescribed in the bylaws.
(d) Locations.—The members and the executive board may hold meetings and keep the seal and records of the corporation in or outside the District of Columbia.
30907 36:26. June 15, 1916, ch. 148, §6, 39 Stat. 228.
In subsection (a), the words “The corporation shall hold an annual meeting” are substituted for “An annual meeting of the incorporators, their associates and successors, shall be held once in every year after the year of incorporation” to eliminate unnecessary and executed words.
In subsection (d), the word “records” is substituted for “books, documents, and papers” for consistency in the revised title and with other titles of the United States Code.
§30908. Annual report
30908 36:28. June 15, 1916, ch. 148, §8, 39 Stat. 229; Aug. 30, 1964, Pub. L. 88–504, §4(1), 78 Stat. 636.
For termination, effective May 15, 2000, of reporting provisions in this section, see section 3003 of Pub. L. 104–66, as amended, set out as a note under section 1113 of Title 31, Money and Finance, and page 198 of House Document No. 103–7.