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

# §75f. Director; appointment and compensation; officers and employees

- (a) The [Board](/usc/20/75a.md?p=a) may appoint and fix the compensation and duties of a director of the [Gallery](/usc/20/75a.md?p=c), and his appointment and salary shall not be subject to the civil-service laws or [chapter 51](/usc/20/chch51.md) and subchapter III of chapter 53 of title 5. The [Board](/usc/20/75a.md?p=a) may employ such other officers and employees as may be necessary for the efficient administration, operation, and maintenance of the [Gallery](/usc/20/75a.md?p=c).
- (b) The [Board](/usc/20/75a.md?p=a) may delegate to the [Secretary](/usc/20/1221.md?p=c-4) of the Smithsonian Institution, as well as to the [Commission](/usc/20/75a.md?p=b), any of its functions pursuant to [subsection (a)](#a) of this section.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 87–443, § 7, Apr. 27, 1962, 76 Stat. 63.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

In subsec. (a), “chapter 51 and subchapter III of chapter 53 of title 5” substituted for “the Classification Act of 1949, as amended” on authority of Pub. L. 89–554, § 7(b) Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 631, the first section of which enacted Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.