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Title 20 — Education

Chapter 72 — Museum and Library Services

§ 9106. Contributions

Statutory text

The Institute is authorized to solicit, accept, receive, and invest in the name of the United States, gifts, bequests, or devises of money and other property or services and to use such property or services in furtherance of the functions of the Institute. Any proceeds from such gifts, bequests, or devises, after acceptance by the Institute, shall be paid by the donor or the representative of the donor to the Director. The Director shall enter the proceeds in a special-interest bearing account to the credit of the Institute for the purposes specified in each case.

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. Museum Services Act

    Pub. L. 94–462 title II § 208 · 90 Stat. 1971

    Enacted · 20 U.S.C. § 9106

    Pub. L. 94–462, title II, § 208, formerly § 207, as added Pub. L. 104–208, div. A, title I, § 101(e) [title VII, § 702], Sept. 30, 1996, 110 Stat. 3009–233, 3009–295

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Pub. L. 94–462, title II, § 208, formerly § 207, as added Pub. L. 104–208, div. A, title I, § 101(e) [title VII, § 702], Sept. 30, 1996, 110 Stat. 3009–233, 3009–295

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 208. funchons of federal council on the arts and the humanities Section 9(c) of the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965 is amended— 20 USC 958. (1) by redesignating paragraph (2) through paragraph (4) as paragraph (3) through paragraph (5), respectively, and by inserting immediately after paragraph (1) the following new paragraph: “(2) advise and consult with the National Museum Services Board and with the Director of the Institute of Museum Services on major problems arising in carrying out the purposes of such Institute;”; (2) in paragraph (3) thereof, as so redesignated by paragraph (1), by striking out “and” immediately after “Arts” and inserting in lien thereof a comma, and by inserting “and the Institute of Museum Services,” immediately after “Humanities,”; and (3) in paragraph (4) thereof, as so redesignated by paragraph (1), by inserting “and the Institute of Museum Services” immediately after “Foundation”.

  2. Museum and Library Services Act of 2003

    Pub. L. 108–81 § 504(e) · 117 Stat. 991

    Substituted · 20 U.S.C. § 9106

    Pub. L. 108–81, § 504(e), which directed substitution of “property or services” for “property of services”, could not be executed because the words “property of services” did not appear in text

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Pub. L. 108–81, § 504(e), which directed substitution of “property or services” for “property of services”, could not be executed because the words “property of services” did not appear in text.

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (e) Contributions.— Section 208 of the Museum and Library Services Act (20 U.S.C. 9106) (as redesignated by section 104 of this Act) is amended by striking “property of services” and inserting “property or services”.

2 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

Amendments

2003—Pub. L. 108–81, § 504(e), which directed substitution of “property or services” for “property of services”, could not be executed because the words “property of services” did not appear in text.

Credits

1996–2003 · 2 acts
  1. 1996Pub. L. 94–462, title II, § 208, formerly § 207, as added Pub. L. 104–208, div. A, title I, § 101(e) [title VII, § 702], , 110 Stat. 3009–233, 3009–295
  2. 2003renumbered § 208 and amended Pub. L. 108–81, title I, § 104(1), title V, § 504(e), , 117 Stat. 993, 1004.
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(Pub. L. 94–462, title II, § 208, formerly § 207, as added Pub. L. 104–208, div. A, title I, § 101(e) [title VII, § 702], , 110 Stat. 3009–233, 3009–295; renumbered § 208 and amended Pub. L. 108–81, title I, § 104(1), title V, § 504(e), , 117 Stat. 993, 1004.)

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