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Title 20 — Education

Chapter 3 — Smithsonian Institution, National Museums and Art Galleries

§ 79c. Resident manager; powers and duties; compensation

Statutory text

The Smithsonian Institution may select and designate a resident manager to assist in carrying out the policy, conditions, and regulations approved by it in compliance with the purposes of this subchapter. The resident manager shall receive such compensation for his services as may be allowed by the Smithsonian Institution.

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. 76–516 § 5 · 54 Stat. 724

    Enacted · 20 U.S.C. § 79c

    July 2, 1940, ch. 516, § 5, 54 Stat. 725

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    July 2, 1940, ch. 516, § 5, 54 Stat. 725

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 5. At each annual meeting, or at special meetings should Executive officer. occasion so demand, the Board of Directors of the Canal Zone Biological Area shall appoint an executive officer whom they may authorize to carry out functions of the Board. With the approval Resident manager. of the Board the executive officer may select and designate a resident manager to assist in carrying out the policy, conditions, and regulations approved by the Board of Directors of the Canal Zone Biological Area in compliance with the purposes of this Act. The executive Compensation. officer and the resident manager shall receive such compensation for their services as may be allowed by the Board of Directors of the Canal Zone Biological Area.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 1385 of Title 48, Territories and Insular Possessions.

Executive Documents

Transfer of Functions

References to the “Board of Directors of the Canal Zone Biological Area” and its “executive officer” changed to “Smithsonian Institution” and provisions for the appointment and compensation of said executive officer were superseded by Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1946, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.

Credits

1940–1946 · 2 acts
  1. 1940July 2, 1940, ch. 516, § 5, 54 Stat. 725
  2. 19461946 Reorg. Plan No. 3, § 801, eff. , 11 F.R. 7877, 60 Stat. 1101.
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(July 2, 1940, ch. 516, § 5, 54 Stat. 725; 1946 Reorg. Plan No. 3, § 801, eff. , 11 F.R. 7877, 60 Stat. 1101.)

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