§42 Board of Regents; Members

Summary

Creates a Board of Regents in Washington to run the Smithsonian. The board must include 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 people who are not in Congress. Of those nine, two must live in Washington, D.C., and seven must live in seven different States (no two from the same State). The Board of Regents may change the size, how members are chosen, or how long they serve for boards and commissions that belong to the Smithsonian, except it cannot change those rules for the Board of Regents itself or for 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.