---
kind: "section"
citation: "36 U.S.C. § 70907"
title: "36"
title_heading: "Patriotic and National Observances, Ceremonies, and Organizations"
number: "70907"
heading: "Exclusive right to name,[1](#fn) seals, emblems, and badges"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/36/70907"
units:
  - "Subtitle II — Patriotic and National Organizations"
  - "Part B — Organizations"
  - "Chapter 709 — Future Farmers of America"
---

# §70907. Exclusive right to name,[1](#fn) seals, emblems, and badges


The FFA and its authorized chapters and associations of chapters have the exclusive right to use the names “Future Farmers of America” and “National FFA Organization,”[^2] and the initials FFA as representing an agricultural education membership organization and seals, emblems, and badges the FFA adopts.


## Footnotes

[^1]: So in original. Probably should be “names”.
[^2]: So in original. The comma preceding the closing quotation marks probably should not appear.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 105–225, Aug. 12, 1998, 112 Stat. 1358; Pub. L. 116–7, § 8, Feb. 21, 2019, 133 Stat. 481.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised<br>Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 70907 | 36:286. | Aug. 30, 1950, ch. 823, § 16, 64 Stat. 566. |

The words “duly”, “sole”, and “lawfully” are omitted as unnecessary.

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2019—Pub. L. 116–7 substituted “FFA” for “corporation” in two places, “names” for “name”, and “ ‘Future Farmers of America’ and ‘National FFA Organization,’ ” for “ ‘Future Farmers of America’ ” and inserted “education” before “membership”.