§ 971. Agreements to indemnify against loss or damage

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. 1975

   Arts and Artifacts Indemnity Act

   Pub. L. 94–158 § 2 · 89 Stat. 844

   Enacted · 20 U.S.C. § 971

   Pub. L. 94–158, § 2, Dec. 20, 1975, 89 Stat. 844

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   Pub. L. 94–158, § 2, Dec. 20, 1975, 89 Stat. 844

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Sec. 2. federal council (a) The Federal Council on the Arts and Humanities (hereinafter in this Act referred to as the “Council”), established under section 9 of the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities 20 USC 958. Act of 1965, is authorized to make agreements to indemnify against loss or damage such items as may be eligible for such indemnity agreements under section 3— (1) in accordance with the provisions of this Act; and (2) on such terms and conditions as the Council shall prescribe, by regulation, ‘in order to achieve the purposes of this Act and consistent with such purposes, to protect the financial interest of the United States. (b) For purposes of this Act, the Council shall be an “agency” within the meaning of the appropriate definitions of such term in title 5, United States Code.

2. 1985

   Arts, Humanities, and Museums Amendments of 1985

   Pub. L. 99–194 title III § 301 · 99 Stat. 1332

   1. Amended · 20 U.S.C. § 971(b)

      Pub. L. 99–194 designated existing provisions as par. (1)

   2. Added · 20 U.S.C. § 971(b)

      Pub. L. 99–194 added par. (2)

   Source evidence

   Code amendment note
   Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 99–194 designated existing provisions as par. (1) and added par. (2).

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   SEC. 301. FEDERAL COUNCIL MEMBERSHIP. Section 2(b) of the Arts and Artifacts Indemnity Act (20 U.S.C. 971(b)) is amended— (1) by inserting “(1)” after the subsection designation; and (2) by adding at the end thereof the following new paragraph: “(2) For purposes of this Act, the Secretary of the Smithsonian Prohibition. Institution, the Director of the National Gallery of Art, the member designated by the Chairman of the Senate Commission of Art and Antiquities and the member designated by the Speaker of the House of Representatives shall not serve as members of the Council.”.

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