20 U.S.C. § 76cc — Board of Trustees

submitted 60 years ago by Pub. L. 89-788 to r/title-20-EDUCATION · 352 words · no verdicts yet

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This law creates a Board of Trustees to advise the Smithsonian's Regents on running the Hirshhorn Museum, and gives it sole power to buy, trade, sell, or lend the museum's artwork and decide how it's displayed. It has ten members: the Chief Justice, the Smithsonian Secretary, and eight others appointed by the President, serving staggered six-year terms.

(a) Establishment; powers and duties: This subsection creates the Trustees of the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, a Board of Trustees inside the Smithsonian Institution. It advises and assists the Smithsonian's Board of Regents on everything relating to running, operating, maintaining, and preserving the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. It also has the sole authority to: (i) purchase or otherwise acquire — by gift, exchange, or other means — artwork for the Museum and Sculpture Garden; (ii) lend, exchange, sell, or otherwise dispose of that artwork; and (iii) decide policy for how the artwork in the museum and garden is displayed. (b) Membership; appointment; terms of office; vacancies: The Board of Trustees has ten members: the Chief Justice of the United States and the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution serve automatically (ex officio), plus eight general members. Of the first eight appointed, four came from nominations submitted by Joseph H. Hirshhorn and four from nominations submitted by the Smithsonian's Board of Regents — all appointed by the President. Their terms were staggered to expire one each year from 1968 through 1975, as the President designated. Later general members (who may be re-chosen from among those whose terms expired) serve six-year terms, except someone filling a vacancy that opened before a term's end serves only the rest of that term. Filling a vacancy among the general members requires a vote of at least four-fifths of the Board's currently serving members.

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(a) Establishment; powers and duties

There is established in the Smithsonian Institution a Board of Trustees to be known as the Trustees of the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, which shall provide advice and assistance to the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution on all matters relating to the administration, operation, maintenance, and preservation of the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; and which shall have the sole authority (i) to purchase or otherwise acquire (whether by gift, exchange, or other means) works of art for the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, (ii) to loan, exchange, sell, or otherwise dispose of said works of art, and (iii) to determine policy as to the method of display of the works of art contained in said museum and sculpture garden.

(b) Membership; appointment; terms of office; vacancies

The Board of Trustees shall be composed of the Chief Justice of the United States and the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, who shall serve as ex officio members, and eight general members to be appointed as follows: Four of the general members first taking office shall be appointed by the President of the United States from among nominations submitted by Joseph H. Hirshhorn and four shall be appointed by the President from among nominations submitted by the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. The general members so appointed by the President shall have terms expiring one each on July 1, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, and 1975, as designated by the President. Successor general members (who may be elected from among members whose terms have expired) shall serve for a term of six years, except that a successor chosen to fill a vacancy occurring prior to the expiration of the term of office of his predecessor shall be chosen only for the remainder of such term. Vacancies occurring among general members of the Board of Trustees of the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden shall be filled by a vote of not less than four-fifths of the then acting members of the Board of Trustees.

Source credit: (Pub. L. 89–788, § 3, Nov. 7, 1966, 80 Stat. 1404.)

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1966Enacted · Pub. L. 89-788 · 80 Stat. 1404

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