Volume 69 · 244
Public Law 84–128
Creating a Federal commission to formulate plans for the construction in the District of Columbia of a civic auditorium, including an Inaugural Hull of Presidents and a music, tine arts, and mass communications center.
Approved July 1, 1955
Statutory text
AN ACT
Creating a Federal commission to formulate plans for the construction in the District of Columbia of a civic auditorium, including an Inaugural Hull of Presidents and a music, tine arts, and mass communications center.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That
there is
D. C. Auditorium Commission.
hereby established a commission to be known as the “District of Columbia Auditorium Commission” (hereinafter referred to as the “Commission”) for the purpose of formulating plans for the design, location, financing, and construction in the District of Columbia of a civic auditorium, including an Inaugural Hall of Presidents and a
Inaugural Hall of Presidents.
music, fine arts, and mass communications center.
The Commission shall be composed of twenty-one members appointed as follows:
Seven persons appointed by the President of the United States;
Seven persons appointed by the President of the Senate; and
Seven persons appointed by the Speaker of the House of Represents fives.
The Commission shall—
consider a suitable site for the civic auditorium referred to in subsection (a);
procure such plans and designs and make such surveys and estimates of the cost thereof as it deems advisable;
endeavor particularly to formulate a method of financing the project on a self-liquidating basis; and
make a report to the President and to the Congress, together with its recommendations, by February 1, 1956.
The Commission is authorized to accept in its discretion from any source, public or private, money and property to be used in carrying out its functions under this Act.
The Commission is authorized to avail itself of the assistance and advice of the Commission of Fine Arts, the National Capital Planning Commission, the National Capital Regional Planning Council, the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia, the District of Columbia Recreation Board, and the District of Columbia Redevelopment Land Agency, which shall upon request render such assistance and advice.
Sec. 2.
The members of the Commission shall serve without compensation; but travel, subsistence, and other necessary expenses incurred by them in connection with the work of the Commission may be paid from any funds available for expenditure by the Commission.
The Commission is authorized, within the limits of funds available to it, to employ and fix the compensation of such officers, experts, and other employees as may be necessary to carry out its functions, and to make such other expenditures as it may deem advisable in carrying out its functions.
Sec. 3.
There are hereby authorized to be appropriated such sums, not to exceed $25,000, as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.
Approved July 1, 1955.