§ 76aa. — Site for museum and sculpture garden.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 20USC76aa]
TITLE 20--EDUCATION
CHAPTER 3--SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, NATIONAL MUSEUMS AND ART GALLERIES
SUBCHAPTER VI--JOSEPH H. HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN
Sec. 76aa. Site for museum and sculpture garden
(a) Appropriation and availability
The area bounded by Seventh Street, Independence Avenue, Ninth
Street, and Jefferson Drive, in the District of Columbia, is hereby
appropriated to the Smithsonian Institution as the permanent site of a
museum and the area bounded by Seventh Street, Jefferson Drive, Ninth
Street, and Madison Drive, in the District of Columbia is hereby made
available to the Smithsonian Institution as the permanent site of a
sculpture garden, both areas to be used for the exhibition of works of
art.
(b) Powers and duties of Board of Regents
The Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution is authorized to
remove any existing structure, to prepare architectural and engineering
designs, plans, and specifications, and to construct a suitable museum
within said area lying south of Jefferson Drive and to provide a
sculpture garden for the use of the Smithsonian Institution within the
areas designated in subsection (a) of this section.
(Pub. L. 89-788, Sec. 1, Nov. 7, 1966, 80 Stat. 1403.)
