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Title 20 — Education

Chapter 3 — Smithsonian Institution, National Museums and Art Galleries

§ 76dd. Director, administrator, curators, and other personnel; appointment, compensation, and duties

Statutory text

The Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution may appoint and fix the compensation and duties of a director and, subject to his supervision, an administrator and two curators of the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, none of whose appointment, compensation, or duties shall be subject to the civil service laws or chapter 51 and subchapter III of chapter 53 of title 5. The Board of Regents may employ such other officers and employees as may be necessary for the efficient administration, operation, and maintenance of the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.

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. Pub. L. 89–788 § 4 · 80 Stat. 1403

    Enacted · 20 U.S.C. § 76dd

    (Pub. L. 89–788, § 4, Nov. 7, 1966, 80 Stat. 1404.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 89–788, § 4, Nov. 7, 1966, 80 Stat. 1404.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 4. The Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution may appoint and fix the compensation and duties of a director and, subject to his supervision, an administrator and two curators of the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, none of whose appointment, compensation, or duties shall be subject to the civil service laws 63 Stat. 954. 5 USC 1071 note. or the Classification Act of 1949, as amended. The Board of Regents may employ such other officers and employees as may be necessary for the efficient administration, operation, and maintenance of the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

Codification

“Chapter 51 and subchapter III of chapter 53 of title 5” substituted in text 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.

Credits

(Pub. L. 89–788, § 4, , 80 Stat. 1404.)

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