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Title 20 — Education

Chapter 3 — Smithsonian Institution, National Museums and Art Galleries

§ 75c. Creation of National Portrait Gallery Commission; members; functions; powers

Statutory text

There is created the National Portrait Gallery Commission. The number, manner of appointment and tenure of the members of the Commission shall be such as the Board may from time to time prescribe. The Board may delegate to the Commission any function of the Gallery or any function of the Board with respect to the Gallery. The Board may make rules and regulations for the conduct of the affairs of the Commission and the operation of the Gallery, and to the extent and under such limitations as the Board deems advisable, the Board may delegate to the Commission the power to make such rules and regulations.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. National Portrait Gallery Act

    Pub. L. 87–443 § 4 · 76 Stat. 62

    Enacted · 20 U.S.C. § 75c

    (Pub. L. 87–443, § 4, Apr. 27, 1962, 76 Stat. 62.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 87–443, § 4, Apr. 27, 1962, 76 Stat. 62.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 4. There is hereby created the National Portrait Gallery Commission. The number, manner of appointment and tenure of the members of the Commission shall be such as the Board may from time to time prescribe. The Board may delegate to the Commission any function of the Gallery or any function of the Board with respect to the Gallery. The Board may make rules and regulations for the conduct of the affairs of the Commission and the operation of the Gallery, and to the extent and under such limitations as the Board deems advisable, the Board may delegate to the Commission the power to make such rules and regulations.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(Pub. L. 87–443, § 4, , 76 Stat. 62.)

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