§ 18f. — Management of museum properties.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 16USC18f]
TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
SUBCHAPTER I--NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
Sec. 18f. Management of museum properties
The purpose of this section and sections 18f-2 and 18f-3 of this
title shall be to increase the public benefits from museums established
within the individual areas administered by the Secretary of the
Interior through the National Park Service as a means of informing the
public concerning the areas and preserving valuable objects and relics
relating thereto. The Secretary of the Interior, notwithstanding other
provisions or limitations of law, may perform the following functions in
such manner as he shall consider to be in the public interest:
(a) Donations and bequests
Accept donations and bequests of money or other personal property,
and hold, use, expend, and administer the same for purposes of this
section and sections 18f-2 and 18f-3 of this title;
(b) Purchases
Purchase museum objects, museum collections, and other personal
properties at prices he considers to be reasonable;
(c) Exchanges
Make exchanges by accepting museum objects, museum collections, and
other personal properties, and by granting in exchange therefor museum
property under the administrative jurisdiction of the Secretary which is
no longer needed or which may be held in duplicate among the museum
properties administered by the Secretary, such exchanges to be
consummated on a basis which the Secretary considers to be equitable and
in the public interest;
(d) Accepting loans of museum objects
Accept the loan of museum objects, museum collections, and other
personal properties and pay transportation costs incidental thereto,
such loans to be accepted upon terms and conditions which he shall
consider necessary; and
(e) Making loans of museum objects
Loan to responsible public or private organizations, institutions,
or agencies, without cost to the United States, such museum objects,
museum collections, and other personal property as he shall consider
advisable, such loans to be made upon terms and conditions which he
shall consider necessary to protect the public interest in such
properties.
(July 1, 1955, ch. 259, Sec. 1, 69 Stat. 242; Pub. L. 104-333, div. I,
title VIII, Sec. 804(a)(1), Nov. 12, 1996, 110 Stat. 4187.)
Amendments
1996--Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 104-333 struck out ``from such donations
and bequests of money'' before ``museum objects''.
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in sections 18f-1, 18f-2, 18f-3 of this
title.
