 
                 CHAPTER 72--MUSEUM AND LIBRARY SERVICES
 
                     SUBCHAPTER III--MUSEUM SERVICES
 
Sec. 9172. Definitions

    As used in this subchapter:

                             (1) Museum

        The term ``museum'' means a public or private nonprofit agency 
    or institution organized on a permanent basis for essentially 
    educational or aesthetic purposes, that utilizes a professional 
    staff, owns or utilizes tangible objects, cares for the tangible 
    objects, and exhibits the tangible objects to the public on a 
    regular basis.

                              (2) State

        The term ``State'' means each of the 50 States of the United 
    States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, 
    the United States Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the 
    Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Republic of the 
    Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, and the 
    Republic of Palau.

(Pub. L. 94-462, title II, Sec. 272, as added Pub. L. 104-208, div. A, 
title I, Sec. 101(e) [title VII, Sec. 702], Sept. 30, 1996, 110 Stat. 
3009-233, 3009-303.)
