§101112 — Title 54 National Park Service and Related Programs | U.S. Code

Summary

Create a National Park Foundation board made up of at least six private U.S. citizens chosen by the Secretary. The Secretary and the Director are also on the board because of their jobs, but they cannot vote. Private members serve 6-year terms, and if someone fills a vacancy they only serve the rest of that term. The board elects a chair from its members for a 2-year term. Being a board member does not count as holding a federal office. A majority of current members is needed to do business. The Foundation has an official seal courts must accept. The chair calls meetings and the board must meet at least once a year. Board members are not paid for their service, but the Foundation will pay back reasonable travel and living expenses they incur while doing board duties, from funds set aside for that.

Title 54, §101112

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(a)The National Park Foundation shall consist of a Board having as members no fewer than six private citizens of the United States appointed by the Secretary. The Secretary and the Director shall be non-voting members of the Board, ex officio.

(b)The term of the private citizen members of the Board is 6 years. If a successor is chosen to fill a vacancy occurring prior to the expiration of a term, the successor shall be chosen only for the remainder of that term.

(c)The Chairman shall be elected by the Board from its members for a 2-year term.

(d)Membership on the Board shall not be an office within the meaning of the statutes of the United States.

(e)A majority of the members of the Board serving at any time shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business.

(f)The National Park Foundation shall have an official seal, which shall be judicially noticed.

(g)The Board shall meet at the call of the Chairman and there shall be at least one meeting each year.

(h)No compensation shall be paid to the members of the Board for their services as members, but they shall be reimbursed for actual and necessary traveling and subsistence expenses incurred by them in the performance of their duties as members out of National Park Foundation funds available to the Board for those purposes.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Historical and Revision Notes

Revised SectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 10111216 U.S.C. 19f.Pub. L. 90–209, § 2, Dec. 18, 1967, 81 Stat. 656. In this section, the text of 16 U.S.C. 19f (2d and last sentences in last sentences) is omitted as obsolete. In subsection (a), the words “ex officio” are omitted as unnecessary. In subsection (b), the words “whose initial terms shall be staggered to assure continuity of administration. Thereafter” are omitted as obsolete.

Editorial Notes

Amendments

2016—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 114–289, § 401(1)(A), amended subsec. (a) generally. Prior to amendment, text read as follows: “The National Park Foundation shall consist of a Board having as members the Secretary, the Director, and no fewer than 6 private citizens of the United States appointed by the Secretary.” Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 114–289, § 401(1)(B), amended subsec. (c) generally. Prior to amendment, text read as follows: “The Secretary shall be the Chairman of the Board and the Director shall be the Secretary of the Board.”

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