    [United States Senate Manual, 112th Congress]
    [S. Doc. 112-1]
    [USCODETITLE]
    [Pages 981-983]
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                                    TITLE 20.--EDUCATION

                 Chapter 3.--SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, NATIONAL MUSEUMS AND
                                       ART GALLERIES

          1330  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.)

          1331  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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          1332  Sec. 76h. Board of Trustees.
                (a) Establishment
                                (1) In general
                                There is established in the Smithsonian
                            Institution a bureau, which shall be directed by
                            a board to be known as the Trustees of the John
                            F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
                            (hereafter in this subchapter referred to as the
                            ``Board''), whose duty it shall be to maintain
                            and administer the John F. Kennedy Center for
                            the Performing Arts and site thereof as the
                            National Center for the Performing Arts, a
                            living memorial to John Fitzgerald Kennedy, and
                            to execute such other functions as are vested in
                            the Board by this subchapter.
                                (2) Membership
                    The Board shall be composed of--

                                    (A) the Secretary of Health and Human
                                Services;

                                    (B) the Librarian of Congress;

                                    (C) the Secretary of State;

                                    (D) the Chairman of the Commission of
                                Fine Arts;

                                    (E) the Mayor of the District of
                                Columbia;

                                    (F) the Superintendent of Schools of the
                                District of Columbia;

                                    (G) the Director of the National Park
                                Service;

                                    (H) the Secretary of Education;

                                    (I) the Secretary of the Smithsonian
                                Institution;

                                    (J)(i) the Speaker and the Minority
                                Leader of the House of Representatives;

                                            (ii) the chairman and ranking
                                        minority member of the Committee on
                                        Transportation and Infrastructure of
                                        the House of Representatives; and

                                            (iii) three additional Members
                                        of the House of Representatives
                                        appointed by the Speaker of the
                                        House of Representatives;

                                    (K)(i) the Majority Leader and the
                                Minority Leader of the Senate;

                                            (ii) the chairman and ranking
                                        minority member of the Committee on
                                        Environment and Public Works of the
                                        Senate; and

                                            (iii) three additional Members
                                        of the Senate appointed by the
                                        President of the Senate; and

                                    (L) thirty-six general trustees, who
                                shall be citizens of the United States, to
                                be appointed in accordance with subsection
                                (b) of this section.

                (b) General trustees
                    The general trustees shall be appointed by the President
                of the United States. Each trustee shall hold office as a
                member of the Board for a term of 6 years, except that--
                                (1) any member appointed to fill a vacancy
                            occurring before the expiration of the term for
                            which the predecessor of the member was
                            appointed shall be appointed for the remainder
                            of the term;
                                (2) a member shall continue to serve until
                            the successor of the member has been appointed;
                            and
                                (3) the term of office of a member appointed
                            before July 21, 1994, shall expire as designated
                            at the time of appointment.

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                (c) Advisory Committee on the Arts
                    There shall be an Advisory Committee on the Arts
                composed of such members as the President of the United
                States may designate, to serve at the pleasure of the
                President. Persons appointed to the Advisory Committee on
                the Arts, including officers or employees of the United
                States, shall be persons who are recognized for their
                knowledge of, or experience or interest in, one or more of
                the arts in the fields covered by the John F. Kennedy Center
                for the Performing Arts. The President shall designate the
                Chairman of the Advisory Committee on the Arts. In making
                such appointments the President shall give consideration to
                such recommendations as may from time to time be submitted
                to him by leading national organizations in the appropriate
                art fields. The Advisory Committee on the Arts shall advise
                and consult with the Board and make recommendations to the
                Board regarding existing and prospective cultural activities
                to be carried out by the John F. Kennedy Center for the
                Performing Arts. The Advisory Committee on the Arts shall
                assist the Board in carrying out section 76k(a) of this
                title. Members of the Advisory Committee on the Arts shall
                serve without compensation. (Pub.L. 85-874, Sec.  2, Sept.
                2, 1958, 72 Stat. 1698; Pub.L. 88-100, Sec. Sec.  1, 2, Aug.
                19, 1963, 77 Stat. 128; Pub.L. 88-260, Sec.  1(2), Jan. 23,
                1964, 78 Stat. 4; Pub.L. 103-279, Sec.  2(b)(1), (c), (d),
                July 21, 1994, 108 Stat. 1409, 1410; Pub.L. 107-117, Div. D,
                Title II, Sec.  201(a), Jan. 10, 2002, 115 Stat. 2353;
                Pub.L. 110-338, Sec.  2, Oct. 3, 2008, 122 Stat. 3731.)
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