---
kind: "section"
citation: "20 U.S.C. § 75d"
title: "20"
title_heading: "Education"
number: "75d"
heading: "Acceptance of gifts; title to property"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/20/75d"
units:
  - "Chapter 3 — Smithsonian Institution, National Museums and Art Galleries"
  - "Subchapter III — National Portrait Gallery"
---

# §75d. Acceptance of gifts; title to property

- (a) The [Board](/usc/20/75a.md?p=a) is authorized to accept for the Smithsonian Institution [gifts](/usc/20/75a.md?p=d) of any property for the benefit of the [Gallery](/usc/20/75a.md?p=c).
- (b) Legal title to all property (except property of the United States) held for the use or benefit of the [Gallery](/usc/20/75a.md?p=c) shall be vested in the Smithsonian Institution. Subject to any limitations otherwise expressly provided by law, and, in the case of any [gift](/usc/20/75a.md?p=d), subject to any applicable restrictions under the terms of such [gift](/usc/20/75a.md?p=d), the [Board](/usc/20/75a.md?p=a) is authorized to sell, exchange, or otherwise dispose of any property of whatsoever nature held by it, and to invest in, reinvest in, or purchase any property of whatsoever nature for the benefit of the National Portrait [Gallery](/usc/20/75a.md?p=c).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 87–443, § 5, Apr. 27, 1962, 76 Stat. 62.)