---
kind: "section"
citation: "2 U.S.C. § 2085"
title: "2"
title_heading: "The Congress"
number: "2085"
heading: "Advisory boards"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/2/2085"
units:
  - "Chapter 30 — Operation and Maintenance of Capitol Complex"
  - "Subchapter V — Historical Preservation and Fine Arts"
  - "Part A — United States Capitol Preservation Commission"
---

# §2085. Advisory boards


The Commission may establish appropriate [boards](/usc/2/179u.md?p=2) to provide advice and assistance to the Commission and to further the purposes of the Commission. The [boards](/usc/2/179u.md?p=2) shall be composed of [members](/usc/2/4556.md?p=2) (including chairmen) who shall be appointed by the Commission from public and private life and shall serve at the pleasure of the Commission and each co-chairman of the Commission may appoint one [member](/usc/2/4556.md?p=2) to any such [board](/usc/2/179u.md?p=2). The [members](/usc/2/4556.md?p=2) of [boards](/usc/2/179u.md?p=2) under this section may be reimbursed for actual and necessary expenses incurred in the performance of the duties of the [boards](/usc/2/179u.md?p=2), at the discretion of the Commission.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 100–696, title VIII, § 805, Nov. 18, 1988, 102 Stat. 4610.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was classified to section 188a–4 of former Title 40, prior to the enactment of Title 40, Public Buildings, Property, and Works, by Pub. L. 107–217, § 1, Aug. 21, 2002, 116 Stat. 1062.