---
kind: "section"
citation: "20 U.S.C. § 80k"
title: "20"
title_heading: "Education"
number: "80k"
heading: "Donation and transfer of lands and improvements, works of art, and other assets and property of Museum of African Art to Smithsonian Institution"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/20/80k"
units:
  - "Chapter 3 — Smithsonian Institution, National Museums and Art Galleries"
  - "Subchapter XII — Museum of African Art"
---

# §80k. Donation and transfer of lands and improvements, works of art, and other assets and property of Museum of African Art to Smithsonian Institution


The [Board](/usc/20/4702.md?p=2) of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution (hereinafter in this subchapter referred to as the “[Board](/usc/20/4702.md?p=2)”) is authorized to accept a deed or other instrument donating and transferring to the Smithsonian Institution, the land and improvements thereto, collections of works of art, and all other [assets](/usc/20/1087vv.md?p=f-1) and property of the [Museum](/usc/20/80r–1.md?p=3) of African Art.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 95–414, § 1, Oct. 5, 1978, 92 Stat. 911.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Pub. L. 95–414, § 7, Oct. 5, 1978, 92 Stat. 913, provided that: “Except for the provisions in sections 1 and 6(b) [this section and section 80p(b) of this title], the provisions of this Act [this subchapter] shall take effect on the date of transfer of a deed or other instrument under the provisions of section 1 [this section].”