20 U.S.C. § 75 — Authority and functions of the board

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The National Gallery's board can adopt an official seal and make its own bylaws and rules, and it can still act even with empty seats, as long as three members show up. It must keep the art collection at a high standard, matching the quality of the original donated collection. The board has the usual legal duties of a trustee, and it must file an annual report on its work.

(a) Official seal; bylaws, rules, and regulations; quorum: The board may adopt an official seal that courts must recognize automatically, and may write its own bylaws, rules, and regulations for running its functions — including rules about acquiring, showing, and lending artwork, managing trust funds, and how the board itself operates. The board can keep functioning even if some seats are vacant, and needs only three members present to conduct business. (b) Quality of works of art: To keep the National Gallery's collection at a consistently high standard, no artwork may be added to the permanent collection unless it matches the same high quality as the works in the collection originally donated. (c) Powers and obligations: The board has all the usual legal powers and responsibilities that any trustee has over the trust funds and artworks it manages. (d) Annual reports: Each year, the board must send the Smithsonian Institution a report on its operations, including a detailed accounting of all artwork acquired or loaned, and of all public and private money it received and spent.

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(a) Official seal; bylaws, rules, and regulations; quorum

The board is authorized to adopt an official seal which shall be judicially noticed and to make such bylaws, rules, and regulations, as it deems necessary for the administration of its functions under this subchapter, including, among other matters, bylaws, rules, and regulations relating to the acquisition, exhibition, and loan of works of art, the administration of its trust funds, and the organization and procedure of the board. The board may function notwithstanding vacancies, and three members of the board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business.

(b) Quality of works of art

In order that the collection of the National Gallery of Art shall always be maintained at a high standard and in order to prevent the introduction therein of inferior works of art, no work of art shall be included in the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Art unless it be of similar high standard of quality to those in the collection acquired from the donor.

The board shall have all the usual powers and obligations of a trustee in respect of all trust funds administered by it and all works of art acquired by it.

(d) Annual reports

The board shall submit to the Smithsonian Institution an annual report of its operations under this subchapter, including a detailed statement of all acquisitions and loans of works of art and of all public and private moneys received and disbursed.

Source credit: (Mar. 24, 1937, ch. 50, § 5, 50 Stat. 53.)

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1937Enacted · Act of Mar. 24, 1937, ch. 50 · 50 Stat. 53

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