Volume 48
Public Law 73–143
To amend section 586c of the Act entitled “An Act to amend subchapter 1 of chapter 18 of the Code of Laws for the District of Columbia relating to degree-conferring institutions”, approved March 2, 1929.
Approved April 16, 1934
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend section 586c of the Act entitled “An Act to amend subchapter 1 of chapter 18 of the Code of Laws for the District of Columbia relating to degree-conferring institutions”, approved March 2, 1929.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That section 586c of the Act entitled “An Act to amend subchapter 1 of chapter 18 of the Code of Laws for the District of Columbia relating to degree-conferring institutions”, approved March 2, 1929, be, and the same is hereby, amended by adding at the end of such section the following:
Degree conferring institutions maintained abroad.
Restriction on use of certain words in names of, removed.
“Provided, That no institution heretofore incorporated under the provisions of this Act, and carrying on its work exclusively in any foreign country with the consent and approval of the Government thereof, shall if otherwise entitled to be licensed by the Board of Education, be denied the same solely because of the inclusion in its name and as descriptive of its origin of any of the specific words the use of which is by this section forbidden to incorporations under the provisions of this Act.”
Approved, April 16, 1934.