§ 42. — Board of Regents; members.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 20USC42]
TITLE 20--EDUCATION
CHAPTER 3--SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, NATIONAL MUSEUMS AND ART GALLERIES
SUBCHAPTER I--CHARTER PROVISIONS
Sec. 42. Board of Regents; members
(a) The business of the Institution shall be conducted at the city
of Washington by a Board of Regents, named the Regents of the
Smithsonian Institution, to be composed of the Vice President, the Chief
Justice of the United States, three Members of the Senate, three Members
of the House of Representatives, and nine other persons, other than
Members of Congress, two of whom shall be resident in the city of
Washington, and seven of whom shall be inhabitants of some State, but no
two of them of the same State.
(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Board of Regents
of the Smithsonian Institution may modify the number of members, manner
of appointment of members, or tenure of members, of the boards or
commissions under the jurisdiction of the Smithsonian Institution, other
than--
(1) the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution; and
(2) the boards or commissions of the National Gallery of Art,
the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and the Woodrow
Wilson International Center for Scholars.
(R.S. Sec. 5580; Mar. 12, 1894, ch. 36, 28 Stat. 41; Pub. L. 91-551,
Sec. 1(a), Dec. 15, 1970, 84 Stat. 1439; Pub. L. 105-277, div. A,
Sec. 101(e) [title III, Sec. 355], Oct. 21, 1998, 112 Stat. 2681-231,
2681-303.)
Codification
R.S. Sec. 5580 derived from acts Aug. 10, 1846, ch. 178, Sec. 3, 9
Stat. 103; Jan. 10, 1865, ch. 11, 13 Stat. 420; Mar. 20, 1871, ch. 1, 17
Stat. 1.
Amendments
1998--Pub. L. 105-277 designated existing provisions as subsec. (a)
and added subsec. (b).
1970--Pub. L. 91-551 authorized three additional persons on the
Board of Regents.
1894--Act Mar. 12, 1894, struck out ``the governor of the District
of Columbia'' after ``the Chief Justice of the United States,''.
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in sections 57, 67 of this title.
