---
kind: "section"
citation: "20 U.S.C. § 77c"
title: "20"
title_heading: "Education"
number: "77c"
heading: "Museum board"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/20/77c"
units:
  - "Chapter 3 — Smithsonian Institution, National Museums and Art Galleries"
  - "Subchapter VII — National Air and Space Museum"
---

# §77c. Museum board

- (a) **Seal; regulations; vacancies—** The [board](/usc/20/4702.md?p=2) 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](/usc/20/4702.md?p=2) may function notwithstanding vacancies and six members of the [board](/usc/20/4702.md?p=2) 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](/usc/20/80r–1.md?p=3), including all public and private moneys received and disbursed.

## Source credit

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

## Notes

### 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”.