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20 U.S.C. § 75b — Establishment of National Portrait Gallery; functions

submitted 64 years ago by Pub. L. 87-443 to r/title-20-EDUCATION · 116 words · no verdicts yet

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This law creates the National Portrait Gallery as a bureau of the Smithsonian Institution and lets it use part of a specific transferred building. The Gallery's job is to be a free public museum showing portraits and statues of people who shaped U.S. history, culture, and development, along with the artists who made them.

(a) This subsection establishes a new bureau within the Smithsonian Institution called the National Portrait Gallery. Its functions are whatever this subchapter authorizes. It is also authorized to use, for the Gallery's purposes, part of the building that was transferred to the Smithsonian under the Act of March 28, 1958. (b) The Gallery's job is to operate as a free public museum. It exhibits and studies portraiture and statuary that depicts men and women who made significant contributions to the history, development, and culture of the American people, as well as the artists who created those works.
the actual law source: uscode.house.gov ↗public domain
(a)

There is established in the Smithsonian Institution a bureau which shall be known as the National Portrait Gallery. The functions of such bureau shall be those authorized by this subchapter. The use for the purposes of the Gallery of any part of the building transferred to the Smithsonian Institution pursuant to the Act of March 28, 1958 (72 Stat. 68), is authorized.

(b)

The Gallery shall function as a free public museum for the exhibition and study of portraiture and statuary depicting men and women who have made significant contributions to the history, development, and culture of the people of the United States and of the artists who created such portraiture and statuary.

Source credit: (Pub. L. 87–443, § 3, Apr. 27, 1962, 76 Stat. 62.)

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  • 1962Enacted · Pub. L. 87-443 · 76 Stat. 62

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