§76cc Board of Trustees

Summary

Creates a Board of Trustees for the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden that must advise the Smithsonian’s Board of Regents about running, caring for, and preserving the museum. The Board alone can acquire art for the museum (including by gift or exchange), lend, trade, sell, or otherwise dispose of those artworks, and decide how the museum’s works are displayed. The Board includes the Chief Justice of the United States and the Secretary of the Smithsonian as members because of their jobs, plus eight general members. At first, the President appoints four general members from names given by Joseph H. Hirshhorn and four from names given by the Board of Regents. Those first eight have staggered terms ending one each year on July 1, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, and 1975 as the President decides. Later general members serve six-year terms. If someone fills a vacancy, they only serve the remainder of that term. Vacancies are filled by a vote of at least four-fifths of the current Trustees.