20 U.S.C. § 72 — Board of Trustees

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Congress created the Trustees of the National Gallery of Art inside the Smithsonian Institution. The board has four government officials and five citizen trustees; federal employees cannot serve as citizen trustees. Citizen trustees serve staggered ten-year terms.

(a) This section creates a bureau inside the Smithsonian Institution, run by a board called the Trustees of the National Gallery of Art. This board's job is to maintain and run the National Gallery of Art and its site, and to carry out the other duties this subchapter gives it. The board has nine members. Four sit on it automatically, by virtue of their other office: the Chief Justice of the United States, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Treasury, and the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. The other five are "general trustees" — private citizens of the United States, chosen the way this section describes. No federal government officer or employee can be chosen as a general trustee. (b) The first group of general trustees was chosen by the Smithsonian's Board of Regents, with the donor's approval. Their terms were staggered to expire one at a time, on July 1 of 1939, 1941, 1943, 1945, and 1947, as the Board of Regents assigned. After that, the sitting general trustees choose each new trustee by majority vote. A newly chosen trustee normally serves a ten-year term, starting from when their predecessor's term ended. But if a trustee is chosen to fill a vacancy that opened before the old term was up, that new trustee only serves out the rest of that unexpired term.

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(a) Establishment

There is established in the Smithsonian Institution a bureau, which shall be directed by a board to be known as the Trustees of the National Gallery of Art, whose duty it shall be to maintain and administer the National Gallery of Art and site thereof and to execute such other functions as are vested in the board by this subchapter. The board shall be composed as follows: The Chief Justice of the United States, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Treasury, and the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, ex officio; and five general trustees who shall be citizens of the United States, to be chosen as hereinafter provided. No officer or employee of the Federal Government shall be eligible to be chosen as a general trustee.

(b) Method of selection; term of office

The general trustees first taking office shall be chosen by the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, subject to the approval of the donor, and shall have terms expiring one each on July 1 of 1939, 1941, 1943, 1945, and 1947, as designated by the Board of Regents. A successor shall be chosen by a majority vote of the general trustees and shall have a term expiring ten years from the date of the expiration of the term for which his predecessor was chosen, except that a successor chosen to fill a vacancy occurring prior to the expiration of such term shall be chosen only for the remainder of such term.

Source credit: (Mar. 24, 1937, ch. 50, § 2, 50 Stat. 52.)

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1937Enacted · Act of Mar. 24, 1937, ch. 50 · 50 Stat. 52

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