Title 20 — Education
Chapter 3 — Smithsonian Institution, National Museums and Art Galleries
§ 75f. Director; appointment and compensation; officers and employees
Statutory text
The Board may appoint and fix the compensation and duties of a director of the Gallery, and his appointment and salary shall not be subject to the civil-service laws or chapter 51 and subchapter III of chapter 53 of title 5. The Board may employ such other officers and employees as may be necessary for the efficient administration, operation, and maintenance of the Gallery.
The Board may delegate to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, as well as to the Commission, any of its functions pursuant to subsection (a) of this section.
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.
National Portrait Gallery Act
Pub. L. 87–443 § 7 · 76 Stat. 62
Enacted · 20 U.S.C. § 75f
(Pub. L. 87–443, § 7, Apr. 27, 1962, 76 Stat. 63.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 87–443, § 7, Apr. 27, 1962, 76 Stat. 63.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 7. (a) The Board may appoint and fix the compensation and Director. Salary, duties. duties of a director of the Gallery, and his appointment and salary shall not be subject to the civil-service laws or the Classification Act of 1949, as amended. The Board may employ such other officers and 63 Stat. 954. 5 USC 1071 note. employees as may be necessary for the efficient administration, operation, and maintenance of the Gallery. (b) The Board may delegate to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, as well as to the Commission, any of its functions pursuant to subsection (a) of this section.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
Codification
In subsec. (a), “chapter 51 and subchapter III of chapter 53 of title 5” substituted for “the Classification Act of 1949, as amended” on authority of Pub. L. 89–554, § 7(b) , 80 Stat. 631, the first section of which enacted Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.