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Title 2, The CongressRelease 119-110

§1722 Appointment of Members

Title 2 › CHAPTER 27 — SOUND RECORDING PRESERVATION BY THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS › SUBCHAPTER III — NATIONAL RECORDING PRESERVATION BOARD › § 1722

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Librarian must ask each of 17 named music, industry, library, archive, and scholarly groups to give a list of three people who could serve on the Board. From each list the Librarian will pick one person and also name an alternate who can attend Board meetings at the Board’s expense when the main member cannot. The Librarian may also appoint up to five members-at-large and must pick an alternate for each of them who can attend at Board expense. The Librarian will pick one Board member to be the Chair. Each Board member serves a 4-year term and can serve more than one term. The Librarian can remove a member who, after proper notice, does not attend (or send an alternate to) regular meetings or who clearly fails to do their job. If a seat becomes vacant, it is filled the same way the original appointment was made, and the new member serves the rest of the term.

Full Legal Text

Title 2, §1722

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(a)Selections from lists submitted by organizations
(1)In general
The Librarian shall request each organization described in paragraph (2) to submit a list of three candidates qualified to serve as a member of the Board. The Librarian shall appoint one member from each such list, and shall designate from that list an alternate who may attend at Board expense those meetings which the individual appointed to the Board cannot attend.
(2)Organizations described
The organizations described in this paragraph are as follows:
(A)National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS).
(B)Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).
(C)Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC).
(D)American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP).
(E)Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI).
(F)Songwriters Association (SESAC).
(G)American Federation of Musicians (AF of M).
(H)Music Library Association.
(I)American Musicological Society.
(J)National Archives and Record Administration.
(K)National Association of Recording Merchandisers (NARM).
(L)Society for Ethnomusicology.
(M)American Folklore Society.
(N)Country Music Foundation.
(O)Audio Engineering Society (AES).
(P)National Academy of Popular Music.
(Q)Digital Media Association (DiMA).
(b)Other members
In addition to the members appointed under subsection (a), the Librarian may appoint not more than five members-at-large. The Librarian shall select an alternate for each member-at-large, who may attend at Board expense those meetings that the member-at-large cannot attend.
(c)Chair
The Librarian shall appoint one member of the Board to serve as Chair.
(d)Term of office
(1)Terms
The term of each member of the Board shall be 4 years, except that there shall be no limit to the number of terms that any individual member may serve.
(2)Removal of members
The Librarian shall have the authority to remove any member of the Board if the member fails, after receiving proper notification, to attend (or send a designated alternate to attend) a regularly scheduled Board meeting, or if the member is determined by the Librarian to have substantially failed to fulfill the member’s responsibilities as a member of the Board.
(3)Vacancies
A vacancy in the Board shall be filled in the manner in which the original appointment was made under subsection (a), except that the Librarian may fill the vacancy from a list of candidates previously submitted by the organization or organizations involved. Any member appointed to fill a vacancy shall be appointed for the remainder of the term of the member’s predecessor.

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2008—Subsec. (d)(2). Pub. L. 110–336 amended par. (2) generally. Prior to amendment, text of par. (2) read as follows: “The Librarian shall have the authority to remove any member of the Board (or, in the case of a member appointed under subsection (a)(1) of this section, the organization that such member represents) if the member or organization over any consecutive 2-year period fails to attend at least one regularly scheduled Board meeting.”

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2 U.S.C. § 1722

Title 2, The Congress

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110