Notice: The uscode.house.gov website is currently operating in a temporary format. While the United States Code remains available from its authoritative source, some website features and functionality are temporarily unavailable.
The United States Code Online is current through Public Law 119-120 (October 7, 2026).
Search & Browse Currency and Updating Classification Tables Popular Name Tool Positive Law Codification Editorial Reclassification Downloads
20 U.S.C. 77c: Museum boardText contains those laws in effect through Public Law 119-120 (October 7, 2026).
From Title 20-EDUCATIONCHAPTER 3-SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, NATIONAL MUSEUMS AND ART GALLERIES

§77c. Museum board

(a)  Seal; regulations; vacancies

The board is authorized to adopt an official seal which shall be judicially noticed and to make such bylaws, rules, and regulations as it deems necessary for the administration of its functions. The board may function notwithstanding vacancies and six members of the board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business.

(b)  Annual report

The Smithsonian Institution shall include in its annual report of its operations to Congress a statement of the operations of said national air and space museum, including all public and private moneys received and disbursed.

( Aug. 12, 1946, ch. 955, § 4 , 60 Stat. 998 ; Pub. L. 89–509 , pt. I, §§ 6, 7, July 19, 1966 , 80 Stat. 310 , 311.)

Editorial Notes

Amendments

1966⁠—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 89–509, § 6, raised from three to six the number of board members required to constitute a quorum.

Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 89–509, § 7, substituted “national air and space museum” for “national air museum”.