---
kind: "section"
citation: "20 U.S.C. § 9106"
title: "20"
title_heading: "Education"
number: "9106"
heading: "Contributions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/20/9106"
units:
  - "Chapter 72 — Museum and Library Services"
  - "Subchapter I — General Provisions"
---

# §9106. Contributions


The [Institute](/usc/20/9101.md?p=6) is authorized to solicit, accept, receive, and invest in the name of the United States, gifts, bequests, or devises of money and other property or services and to use such property or services in furtherance of the functions of the [Institute](/usc/20/9101.md?p=6). Any proceeds from such gifts, bequests, or devises, after acceptance by the [Institute](/usc/20/9101.md?p=6), shall be paid by the donor or the representative of the donor to the [Director](/usc/20/9101.md?p=3). The [Director](/usc/20/9101.md?p=3) shall enter the proceeds in a special-interest bearing account to the credit of the [Institute](/usc/20/9101.md?p=6) for the purposes specified in each case.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 94–462, title II, § 208, formerly § 207, as added Pub. L. 104–208, div. A, title I, § 101(e) [title VII, § 702], Sept. 30, 1996, 110 Stat. 3009–233, 3009–295; renumbered § 208 and amended Pub. L. 108–81, title I, § 104(1), title V, § 504(e), Sept. 25, 2003, 117 Stat. 993, 1004.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2003—Pub. L. 108–81, § 504(e), which directed substitution of “property or services” for “property of services”, could not be executed because the words “property of services” did not appear in text.