20 U.S.C. § 80g — Powers and duties of Board

submitted 58 years ago by Pub. L. 90-637 to r/title-20-EDUCATION · 474 words · no verdicts yet

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This law gives a Board wide powers to run a Center honoring Woodrow Wilson. The Board can appoint scholars, accept gifts and grants, buy land, hire staff, and plan the Center's buildings. It must also help people and businesses displaced when the Center's site is acquired.

(a) Powers of the Board The Board runs the Center and has broad powers, including: (1) It can appoint scholars from the United States and other countries. It can pay them stipends, grants, and fellowships. It can also hire or accept free help from consultants, advisory boards, and panels. (2) It can accept gifts, bequests, and other property for the Center. Any money or property it receives must be deposited with the Smithsonian Institution. Unless the gift says otherwise, the Board decides how to spend it. (3) It can get grants from and make contracts with state, federal, local, and private groups and people. (4) It can acquire a site for the Center once Congress approves one. (5) It can acquire, keep, use, run, and get rid of buildings and equipment the Center needs. (6) It can appoint and set the pay and duties of the Center's director and other officers. The director and two other officers can be hired and paid without following the normal federal civil-service rules in title 5. (7) It can prepare plans for the Center's buildings and grounds, working with the President's Temporary Commission on Pennsylvania Avenue (or whoever replaces it) and other federal and local agencies. These plans must include an outdoor classic-style frieze memorial to Woodrow Wilson. (b) Helping people displaced when the site is acquired When Congress approves a site under (a)(4), the Board must help any businesses and residents forced to move. It must give them relocation help — payments and other benefits — equal to what the Housing Act of 1949 gives to people displaced by other projects. The Board must create a relocation plan for the businesses and residents on the site and send that plan to the District of Columbia government, so the District can decide if the plan is adequate and workable. In doing this work, the Board must use federal and local agencies' services and facilities as much as possible.

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(a) Appointment of scholars; gifts, bequests, etc.; grants; location of Center; physical facilities; compensation of officers; plans and specifications for Center

In administering the Center, the Board shall have all necessary and proper powers, which shall include but not be limited to the power to—

(1)

appoint scholars, from the United States and abroad, and, where appropriate, provide stipends, grants, and fellowships to such scholars, and to hire or accept the voluntary services of consultants, advisory boards, and panels to aid the Board in carrying out its responsibilities;

(2)

solicit, accept, and dispose of gifts, bequests, and devises of money, securities, and other property of whatsoever character for the benefit of the Center; any such money, securities, or other property shall, upon receipt, be deposited with the Smithsonian Institution, and unless otherwise restricted by the terms of the gift, expenditures shall be in the discretion of the Board for the purposes of the Center;

(3)

obtain grants from, and make contracts with, State, Federal, local, and private agencies, organizations, institutions, and individuals;

(4)

acquire such site as a location for the Center as may subsequently be authorized by the Congress;

(5)

acquire, hold, maintain, use, operate, and dispose of any physical facilities, including equipment, necessary for the operation of the Center;

(6)

appoint and fix the compensation and duties of the director and such other officers of the Center as may be necessary for the efficient administration of the Center; the director and two other officers of the Center may be appointed and compensated without regard to the provisions of title 5 governing appointments in the competitive service and chapter 51 and subchapter III of chapter 53 of title 5; and

(7)

prepare plans and specifications for the Center, including the design and development of all buildings, facilities, open spaces, and other structures on the site in consultation with the President’s Temporary Commission on Pennsylvania Avenue, or its successor, and with other appropriate Federal and local agencies, such plans to include an exterior classic frieze memorial to Woodrow Wilson.

(b) Relocation assistance and programs

The Board shall, in connection with acquisition of any site authorized by Congress, as provided for in paragraph (4) of subsection (a) of this section, provide, to businesses and residents displaced from any such site, relocation assistance, including payments and other benefits, equivalent to that authorized to displace businesses and residents under the Housing Act of 1949, as amended [42 U.S.C. 1441 et seq.]. The Board shall develop a relocation program for existing businesses and residents within the site and submit such program to the government of the District of Columbia for a determination as to its adequacy and feasibility. In providing such relocation assistance and developing such relocation program the Board shall utilize to the maximum extent the services and facilities of the appropriate Federal and local agencies.

Source credit: (Pub. L. 90–637, § 4, Oct. 24, 1968, 82 Stat. 1358; Pub. L. 95–286, § 2, May 26, 1978, 92 Stat. 279.)

history & why it existsrecord from the source credit

1968Enacted · Pub. L. 90-637 · 82 Stat. 1358
1978Amended · Pub. L. 95-286 · 92 Stat. 279

A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by Pub. L. 90-637 on 1968-10-24.

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