---
kind: "section"
citation: "20 U.S.C. § 76dd"
title: "20"
title_heading: "Education"
number: "76dd"
heading: "Director, administrator, curators, and other personnel; appointment, compensation, and duties"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/20/76dd"
units:
  - "Chapter 3 — Smithsonian Institution, National Museums and Art Galleries"
  - "Subchapter VI — Joseph H. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden"
---

# §76dd. Director, administrator, curators, and other personnel; appointment, compensation, and duties


The [Board](/usc/20/4702.md?p=2) of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution may appoint and fix the compensation and duties of a [director](/usc/20/9101.md?p=3) and, subject to his supervision, an administrator and two curators of the Joseph H. Hirshhorn [Museum](/usc/20/80r–1.md?p=3) and Sculpture Garden, none of whose appointment, compensation, or duties shall be subject to the civil service laws or [chapter 51](/usc/20/ch51.md) and subchapter III of [chapter 53](/usc/5/chptIII-sptD-ch53.md) of title 5. The [Board](/usc/20/4702.md?p=2) of Regents may employ such other [officers](/usc/20/1094.md?p=i-5) and employees as may be necessary for the efficient administration, operation, and maintenance of the Joseph H. Hirshhorn [Museum](/usc/20/80r–1.md?p=3) and Sculpture Garden.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 89–788, § 4, Nov. 7, 1966, 80 Stat. 1404.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

“Chapter 51 and subchapter III of chapter 53 of title 5” substituted in text for “the Classification Act of 1949, as amended” on authority of Pub. L. 89–554, § 7(b), Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 631, the first section of which enacted Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.