---
kind: "section"
citation: "20 U.S.C. § 80o"
title: "20"
title_heading: "Education"
number: "80o"
heading: "Director, officers, and employees; appointment, compensation, and duties"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/20/80o"
units:
  - "Chapter 3 — Smithsonian Institution, National Museums and Art Galleries"
  - "Subchapter XII — Museum of African Art"
---

# §80o. Director, officers, and employees; appointment, compensation, and duties


The [Board](/usc/20/4702.md?p=2) may appoint and fix the compensation and duties of the [Director](/usc/20/9101.md?p=3) and such other [officers](/usc/20/1094.md?p=i-5) and employees of the [Museum](/usc/20/80r–1.md?p=3) as may be necessary for the efficient administration, operation, and maintenance of the [Museum](/usc/20/80r–1.md?p=3); the [Director](/usc/20/9101.md?p=3) and two other employees of the [Museum](/usc/20/80r–1.md?p=3) may be appointed and compensated without regard to the provisions of [title 5](/usc/5.md) governing appointments in the competitive service and [chapter 51](/usc/20/ch51.md) and subchapter III of [chapter 53](/usc/5/chptIII-sptD-ch53.md) of title 5; and all of the employees of the [Museum](/usc/20/80r–1.md?p=3) who are serving on the date of the transfer authorized under [section 80k of this title](/usc/20/80k.md) shall be offered employment by the Smithsonian under its usual terms of employment and may be appointed without regard to the provisions of [title 5](/usc/5.md) governing appointments in the competitive service and [chapter 51](/usc/20/ch51.md) and subchapter III of [chapter 53](/usc/5/chptIII-sptD-ch53.md) of title 5.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 95–414, § 5, Oct. 5, 1978, 92 Stat. 912.)