20 U.S.C. § 91 — Literary and scientific collections accessible to investigators and students

submitted 134 years ago by Pub. L. 96-88 to r/title-20-EDUCATION · 188 words · no verdicts yet

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Scientists, students, and graduates at U.S. land-grant colleges can use certain federal collections in Washington. These include the Library of Congress, the National Museum, the Patent Office, and other listed institutions. Access follows rules each department or collection's officers set.

The study, research, and illustration facilities in the federal government departments and in the collections listed below, now existing or later established in Washington, D.C. to promote knowledge, must be made accessible — under rules the officer in charge of each department or collection may set, subject to whatever authority the law already allows — to scientific investigators, and to qualified individuals, students, and graduates of any school in the states, territories, and the District of Columbia. The listed collections are: the Library of Congress; the National Museum; the United States Patent and Trademark Office; the Department of Education; the Bureau of Ethnology; the Army Medical Museum; the Department of Agriculture; the United States Fish and Wildlife Service; the Botanic Gardens; the National Ocean Survey; the United States Geological Survey; the Naval Observatory; the Zoological Park; and the Government Publishing Office.

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The facilities for study, research and illustration in the Government departments and in the following and any other governmental collections now existing or hereafter to be established in the city of Washington for the promotion of knowledge shall be accessible, under such rules and restrictions as the officers in charge of each department or collection may prescribe, subject to such authority as is now or may hereafter be permitted by law, to the scientific investigators and to duly qualified individuals, students and graduates of any institution of learning in the several States and Territories and the District of Columbia, to wit:

One. Of the Library of Congress.

Two. Of the National Museum.

Three. Of the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

Four. Of the Department of Education.

Five. Of the Bureau of Ethnology.

Six. Of the Army Medical Museum.

Seven. Of the Department of Agriculture.

Eight. Of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service.

Nine. Of the Botanic Gardens.

Ten. Of the National Ocean Survey.

Eleven. Of the United States Geological Survey.

Twelve. Of the Naval Observatory.

Thirteen. Of the Zoological Park.

Fourteen. Of the Government Publishing Office.

Source credit: (Apr. 12, 1892, No. 8, 27 Stat. 395; Mar. 3, 1901, ch. 831, § 1, 31 Stat. 1039; May 14, 1928, ch. 551, § 1, 45 Stat. 531; 1939 Reorg. Plan No. II, § 4(e), eff. July 1, 1939, 4 F.R. 2731, 53 Stat. 1433; 1940 Reorg. Plan No. III, § 3, eff. June 30, 1940, 5 F.R. 2108, 54 Stat. 1232; Aug. 8, 1956, ch. 1036, § 3, 70 Stat. 1120; 1965 Reorg. Plan No. 2, eff. July 13, 1965, 30 F.R. 8819, 79 Stat. 1318; 1970 Reorg. Plan No. 4, eff. Oct. 3, 1970, 35 F.R. 15627, 84 Stat. 2090; Pub. L. 96–88, title III, § 301(b)(2), title V, § 507, Oct. 17, 1979, 93 Stat. 678, 692; Pub. L. 102–154, title I, Nov. 13, 1991, 105 Stat. 1000; Pub. L. 106–113, div. B, § 1000(a)(9) [title IV, § 4732(b)(10)], Nov. 29, 1999, 113 Stat. 1536, 1501A–584; Pub. L. 113–235, div. H, title I, § 1301(b), Dec. 16, 2014, 128 Stat. 2537.)

history & why it existsrecord from the source credit

1901Enacted · Act of Mar. 3, 1901, ch. 831 · 31 Stat. 1039
1928Amended · Act of May 14, 1928, ch. 551 · 45 Stat. 531
1956Amended · Act of Aug. 8, 1956, ch. 1036 · 70 Stat. 1120
1979Amended · Pub. L. 96-88 · 93 Stat. 678, 692
1991Amended · Pub. L. 102-154 · 105 Stat. 1000
1999Amended · Pub. L. 106-113 · 113 Stat. 1536, 1501
2014Amended · Pub. L. 113-235 · 128 Stat. 2537

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