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Title 20 — Education

Chapter 3 — Smithsonian Institution, National Museums and Art Galleries

§ 75d. Acceptance of gifts; title to property

Statutory text

(a)

The Board is authorized to accept for the Smithsonian Institution gifts of any property for the benefit of the Gallery.

(b)

Legal title to all property (except property of the United States) held for the use or benefit of the Gallery shall be vested in the Smithsonian Institution. Subject to any limitations otherwise expressly provided by law, and, in the case of any gift, subject to any applicable restrictions under the terms of such gift, the Board is authorized to sell, exchange, or otherwise dispose of any property of whatsoever nature held by it, and to invest in, reinvest in, or purchase any property of whatsoever nature for the benefit of the National Portrait Gallery.

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 § 5 · 76 Stat. 62

    Enacted · 20 U.S.C. § 75d

    (Pub. L. 87–443, § 5, Apr. 27, 1962, 76 Stat. 62.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 87–443, § 5, Apr. 27, 1962, 76 Stat. 62.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 5. (a) The Board is authorized to accept for the Smithsonian Institution gifts of any property for the benefit of the Gallery. (b) Legal title to all property (except property of the United States) held for the use or benefit of the Gallery snail be vested in the Smithsonian Institution. Subject to any limitations otherwise expressly provided by law, and, in the case of any gift, subject to any applicable restrictions under the terms of such gift, the Board is authorized to sell, exchange, or otherwise dispose of any property of whatsoever nature held by it, and to invest in, reinvest in, or purchase any property of whatsoever nature for the benefit of the National Portrait Gallery.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(Pub. L. 87–443, § 5, , 76 Stat. 62.)

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