36-U.S.C.-20105

§20105 – Powers

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Title 36 > Subtitle II > Part B > Chapter 201 > Section 20105

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• Reference: Section 20105
• Legend: §20105 – Powers
• USCode Year: 2013

Provision Content

The corporation may—

(1) adopt and amend bylaws for the management of its property and the regulation of its affairs;

(2) adopt and alter a corporate seal;

(3) choose officers, managers, agents, and employees as the activities of the corporation require;

(4) make contracts;

(5) acquire, own, lease, encumber, and transfer property as necessary or convenient to carry out the purposes of the corporation;

(6) borrow money, issue instruments of indebtedness, and secure its obligations by granting security interests in its property; and

(7) sue and be sued.

(Pub. L. 105–225, Aug. 12, 1998, 112 Stat. 1285.)

In this section, the text of 36:987 is omitted as executed and obsolete.

In clause (1), the words and alter are omitted as unnecessary.

In clause (2), the word use is omitted as unnecessary.

In clause (4), the words make contracts are substituted for contract and be contracted with to eliminate unnecessary words.

Clause (5) is substituted for take by lease, gift, purchase, grant, devise, or bequest from any private corporation, association, partnership, firm, or individual and to hold any property, real, personal, or mixed, necessary or convenient for attaining the objects and carrying into effect the purposes of the corporation in 36:974(7) and transfer, convey, lease, sublease, encumber and otherwise alienate real, personal or mixed property in 36:974(8) for consistency in the revised title and to eliminate unnecessary words. The words subject, however, to applicable provisions of law of any State (A) governing the amount or kind of property which may be held by, or (B) otherwise limiting or controlling the ownership of property by, a corporation operating in such State in 36:974(7) are omitted as unnecessary.

In clause (6), the words issue instruments of indebtedness, and secure its obligations by granting security interests in its property are substituted for issue bonds therefor, and secure the same by mortgage, deed of trust, pledge or otherwise for consistency in the revised title and to eliminate unnecessary words. The words for the purposes of the corporation and subject in every case to all applicable provisions of Federal and State laws are omitted as unnecessary.

In clause (7), the words complain and defend in any court of competent jurisdiction are omitted as unnecessary.

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