 
 CHAPTER 3--SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, NATIONAL MUSEUMS AND ART GALLERIES
 
                SUBCHAPTER III--NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY
 
Sec. 75b. Establishment of National Portrait Gallery; functions

    (a) There is established in the Smithsonian Institution a bureau 
which shall be known as the National Portrait Gallery. The functions of 
such bureau shall be those authorized by this subchapter. The use for 
the purposes of the Gallery of any part of the building transferred to 
the Smithsonian Institution pursuant to the Act of March 28, 1958 (72 
Stat. 68), is authorized.
    (b) The Gallery shall function as a free public museum for the 
exhibition and study of portraiture and statuary depicting men and women 
who have made significant contributions to the history, development, and 
culture of the people of the United States and of the artists who 
created such portraiture and statuary.

(Pub. L. 87-443, Sec. 3, Apr. 27, 1962, 76 Stat. 62.)

                       References in Text

    Act of March 28, 1958, referred to in subsec. (a), is act Mar. 28, 
1958, Pub. L. 85-357, 72 Stat. 68, which was not classified to the Code.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 75e of this title.
