§76cc Board of Trustees

Summary

Creates a Board of Trustees for the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden inside the Smithsonian. The board must advise the Smithsonian’s Board of Regents about running, caring for, and preserving the museum and garden. The board alone can acquire art (by purchase, gift, exchange, or other ways), loan or sell or otherwise get rid of art, and decide how the works are displayed. The Chief Justice of the United States and the Secretary of the Smithsonian are automatic members. Eight other members are appointed by the President: four from nominations by Joseph H. Hirshhorn and four from nominations by the Board of Regents. The first eight had staggered terms ending one each on July 1, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, and 1975 as the President designated. Later members serve six-year terms, except someone picked to fill a vacancy serves only the rest of that term. Vacancies are filled by a vote of at least four-fifths of the current trustees.