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                                    TITLE 20.--EDUCATION

                             Chapter 3.--SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION

          1020  Sec. 42. Board of Regents; members.
                (a) Composition
                    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) Modification of number, appointment or tenure of
                    members; exceptions
                    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.

                (As amended Oct. 21, 1998, Pub. L. 105-277, Div. A,
                Sec. 101(e) [Title III, Sec. 355], 112 Stat. 2681-231, 2681-
                303.)

          1021  Sec. 43. Appointment of regents; terms of office; vacancies.
                    The regents to be selected shall be appointed as
                follows: The Members of the Senate by the President thereof;
                the Members of the House by the Speaker thereof; and the
                nine other persons by joint resolution of the Congress. The
                Members of the House so appointed shall serve for the term
                of two years; and on every alternate fourth Wednesday of
                December a like number shall be appointed in the same
                manner, to serve until the fourth Wednesday in December, in
                the second year succeeding their appointment. The Senators
                so appointed shall serve during the term for which they
                shall hold, without reelection, their office as Senators.
                Vacancies, occasioned by death, resignation, or otherwise,
                shall be filled as vacancies in committees are filled. The
                regular term of service for the other nine members shall be
                six years; and new elections thereof shall be made by joint
                resolutions of Congress. Vacancies occasioned by death,
                resignation, or otherwise may be filled in like manner by
                joint resolution of Congress. (R.S. Sec. 5581; Dec. 15,
                1970, Pub. L. 91-551, 84 Stat. 1440.)
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