20 U.S.C. § 2106: Administration

Summary

The Librarian of Congress may run the Center by making needed rules and by taking gifts, bequests, or other property for the Center. The Librarian can use, sell, or dispose of those gifts to carry out the Center’s work and does not have to follow federal property disposal rules for gifts. With the Board of Trustees’ OK, the Librarian can accept gifts that come with conditions, even if those conditions require the Center to use its own funds. The Librarian may hire staff and set pay under the hiring and pay rules in Title 5, but may appoint a limited number of employees outside those rules. The Librarian can hire experts, accept unpaid volunteers (paying travel costs), sign contracts (and with two-thirds of the Board approve contracts without bonds), and make advance or progress payments as allowed by the cited federal statutes. Each year the Director must give the Librarian a report on the Center’s activities, listing all private and public money received and spent and any recommendations, so the Librarian can include it in the Library of Congress’s annual report to Congress.

Title 20, §2106

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(a)Regulations; receipt of money and other property; compensation of personnel; services of experts and consultants; contracts; payments

In addition to any authority vested in it by other provisions of this subchapter, the Librarian of Congress, in carrying out the Center’s functions, is authorized to—

(1)prescribe such regulations as he deems necessary;

(2)receive money and other property donated, bequeathed, or devised, without condition or restriction other than that it be for the purposes of the Center and to use, sell, or otherwise dispose of such property for the purpose of carrying out its functions, without reference to Federal property disposal statutes;

(3)in the discretion of the Board of Trustees, receive (and use, sell, or otherwise dispose of, in accordance with clause (2)) money and other property donated, bequeathed, or devised to the Center with a condition or restriction, including a condition that the Center use other funds of the Center for the purpose of the gift;

(4)appoint and fix the compensation of such personnel as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this subchapter in accordance with the provisions of chapter 51 and subchapter III of chapter 53 of title 5 relating to classification and General Schedule pay rates, except that the Librarian of Congress may appoint and fix the compensation of a reasonable number of personnel without regard to the provisions of chapter 51 and subchapter III of chapter 53 of title 5 relating to classification and General Schedule pay rates;

(5)obtain the services of experts and consultants in accordance with the provisions of section 3109 of title 5;

(6)accept and utilize the services of voluntary and noncompensated personnel and reimburse them for travel expenses, including per diem, as authorized by section 5703 of title 5;

(7)enter into contracts to carry out the provisions of this subchapter, and such contracts may, with the concurrence of two-thirds of the members of the Board, be entered into without performance or other bonds and in conformity with section 6101 of title 41; and

(8)make advances, progress, and other payments which the Board deems necessary under this subchapter in conformity with the provisions of section 3324(a) and (b) of title 31.

(b)Annual report to Congress

The Director shall submit to the Librarian for inclusion in the annual report of the Library of Congress to the Congress an annual report of the operations of the Center under this subchapter, which shall include a detailed statement of all private and public funds received and expended by it, and such recommendations as the Center deems appropriate.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Codification In subsec. (a)(7), “section 6101 of title 41” substituted for “section 3709 of the Revised Statutes, as amended (41 U.S.C. 5)” on authority of Pub. L. 111–350, § 6(c), Jan. 4, 2011, 124 Stat. 3854, which Act enacted Title 41, Public Contracts. In subsec. (a)(8), “section 3324(a) and (b) of title 31” substituted for “section 3648 of the Revised Statutes, as amended (31 U.S.C. 529)” on authority of Pub. L. 97–258, § 4(b), Sept. 13, 1982, 96 Stat. 1067, the first section of which enacted Title 31, Money and Finance.

Amendments

1998—Subsec. (a)(4). Pub. L. 105–275 struck out before semicolon at end “, but no individual so appointed shall receive compensation in excess of the rate received by the Deputy Director of the Center”.

§2106 Administration

Summary

Title 20, §2106

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Amendments

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