20 U.S.C. § 80g: Powers and duties of Board

Summary

The Board must run the Center and has broad powers to do so. It can hire scholars from the United States and abroad and give stipends, grants, or fellowships. It can hire or accept volunteer consultants, advisory boards, and panels. It can ask for, accept, and handle gifts, bequests, money, securities, and other property; any receipts must be deposited with the Smithsonian Institution and, unless the donor limits them, the Board decides how to spend them for the Center. The Board can get grants and make contracts with State, Federal, local, and private groups. It can acquire a site if Congress authorizes it. It may buy, keep, run, and sell buildings, equipment, and other facilities. The Board appoints and sets pay and duties for the director and other officers; the director and two other officers may be appointed and paid without regard to the provisions of title 5 governing appointments in the competitive service and chapter 51 and subchapter III of chapter 53 of title 5. The Board must prepare plans and designs for all buildings, open spaces, and structures in consultation with the President’s Temporary Commission on Pennsylvania Avenue, or its successor, and other federal and local agencies, and the plans must include an exterior classic frieze memorial to Woodrow Wilson. If the Board acquires a site, it must give relocation help to businesses and residents who are forced to move. That help, including payments and other benefits, must be equal to what is authorized under the Housing Act of 1949, as amended [42 U.S.C. 1441 et seq.]. The Board must make a relocation program for people and businesses on the site and send it to the government of the District of Columbia to decide if it is adequate and feasible. The Board must use the services and facilities of the proper Federal and local agencies as much as possible.

Title 20, §80g

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(a)Appointment of scholars; gifts, bequests, etc.; grants; location of Center; physical facilities; compensation of officers; plans and specifications for Center

In administering the Center, the Board shall have all necessary and proper powers, which shall include but not be limited to the power to—

(1)appoint scholars, from the United States and abroad, and, where appropriate, provide stipends, grants, and fellowships to such scholars, and to hire or accept the voluntary services of consultants, advisory boards, and panels to aid the Board in carrying out its responsibilities;

(2)solicit, accept, and dispose of gifts, bequests, and devises of money, securities, and other property of whatsoever character for the benefit of the Center; any such money, securities, or other property shall, upon receipt, be deposited with the Smithsonian Institution, and unless otherwise restricted by the terms of the gift, expenditures shall be in the discretion of the Board for the purposes of the Center;

(3)obtain grants from, and make contracts with, State, Federal, local, and private agencies, organizations, institutions, and individuals;

(4)acquire such site as a location for the Center as may subsequently be authorized by the Congress;

(5)acquire, hold, maintain, use, operate, and dispose of any physical facilities, including equipment, necessary for the operation of the Center;

(6)appoint and fix the compensation and duties of the director and such other officers of the Center as may be necessary for the efficient administration of the Center; the director and two other officers of the Center may be appointed and compensated without regard to the provisions of title 5 governing appointments in the competitive service and chapter 51 and subchapter III of chapter 53 of title 5; and

(7)prepare plans and specifications for the Center, including the design and development of all buildings, facilities, open spaces, and other structures on the site in consultation with the President’s Temporary Commission on Pennsylvania Avenue, or its successor, and with other appropriate Federal and local agencies, such plans to include an exterior classic frieze memorial to Woodrow Wilson.

(b)Relocation assistance and programs

The Board shall, in connection with acquisition of any site authorized by Congress, as provided for in paragraph (4) of subsection (a) of this section, provide, to businesses and residents displaced from any such site, relocation assistance, including payments and other benefits, equivalent to that authorized to displace businesses and residents under the Housing Act of 1949, as amended [42 U.S.C. 1441 et seq.]. The Board shall develop a relocation program for existing businesses and residents within the site and submit such program to the government of the District of Columbia for a determination as to its adequacy and feasibility. In providing such relocation assistance and developing such relocation program the Board shall utilize to the maximum extent the services and facilities of the appropriate Federal and local agencies.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

The Housing Act of 1949, as amended, referred to in subsec. (b), is act July 15, 1949, ch. 338, 63 Stat. 413, which is classified principally to chapter 8A (§ 1441 et seq.) of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see

Short Title

note set out under section 1441 of Title 42 and Tables.

Amendments

1978—Subsec. (a)(2). Pub. L. 95–286 substituted “devises” for “devices”.

§80g Powers and Duties of Board