§76cc Board of Trustees

Summary

Creates a Board of Trustees for the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. The Board must advise the Smithsonian’s Board of Regents on running, operating, maintaining, and preserving the museum and has the only authority to acquire art, to loan, exchange, sell, or otherwise dispose of art, and to decide how the art is displayed. The Board has ten members: the Chief Justice of the United States and the Secretary of the Smithsonian (who are members by virtue of their offices) and eight general members appointed by the President. Four of those eight must be chosen from nominees submitted by Joseph H. Hirshhorn and four from nominees submitted by the Board of Regents. The first eight appointed by the President had terms ending one each on July 1, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, and 1975, as the President designated. Successors serve six-year terms (or only the remainder if filling a vacancy). Vacancies among the general members must be filled by a vote of at least four-fifths of the then acting Board.