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Public Law 88–100

To amend the National Cultural Center Act to extend the termination date contained therein, and to enlarge the Board of Trustees.

Approved August 19, 1963

Statutory text

AN ACT

To amend the National Cultural Center Act to extend the termination date contained therein, and to enlarge the Board of Trustees.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Ignited State# of America in Congress assembled,

That subsection (a) of section 2 of the National Cultural Center Act (72 Stat. 1698) is amended in its last clause by striking out the word “fifteen” and inserting in lieu thereof the word “thirty”.

Sec. 2.

Subsection (b) of section 2 of the National Cultural Center Act (72 Stat. 1698) is amended to read as follows:

“(b)

The general trustees shall be appointed by the President of the United States and each such trustee shall hold office as a member of the Board for a term of ten years, except, that (1) any member appointed to fill a vacancy occurring prior to the expiration of the term for which his predecessor was appointed shall be appointed for the remainder of such term, (2) the terms of any members appointed prior to the date of enactment of the National Cultural Center Amendments Act of 1963 shall expire as designated by the President at the time of appointment, and (3) the terms of the first fifteen members appointed to the Board pursuant to the amendments made by the National Cultural Center Amendments Act. of 1963 shall expire. as designated by the President at the time of appointment, three on September 1, 1964, three on September I, 1966, three on September 1, 1968, three on September 1, 1970, and three on September 1, 1972.”

Sec. 3.

Subsection (a) of section 6 of the National Cultural Center Act (72 Stat. 1699) is amended in its second sentence by deleting the word “eight” and substituting in lieu thereof “twelve”.

Sec. 4.

Subsection (a) of section 7 of the National Cultural Center Act (72 Stat. 1700) is amended by deleting the word “five” and substituting in lieu thereof the word “eight”.

Sec. 5.

This Act may be cited as the “National Cultural Center Amendments Act of 1963”.

Approved August 19, 1963.

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