Notes on support and scholarship in humanities and arts; museum services : US Code - Notes

Search Notes on support and scholarship in humanities and arts; museum services : US Code - Notes

SUBCHAPTER I - NATIONAL FOUNDATION ON THE ARTS AND THE HUMANITIES
Sec.
951. Declaration of findings and purposes.
952. Definitions.
953. National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities.
(a) Establishment; composition.
(b) Purpose.
(c) Prohibition against Federal supervision over
policy determination, personnel, or
curriculum, or administration or operation of
any school or other non-Federal body.
954. National Endowment for the Arts.
(a) Establishment.
(b) Chairperson of the Endowment; term of office;
vacancies.
(c) Program of contracts, grants-in-aid, or loans
to groups and individuals for projects and
productions; traditionally underrepresented
recipients of financial assistance.
(d) Application for payment; regulations and
procedures.
(e) Limitation on amount of grant to group; grants
and contracts of the National Endowment for
the Arts.
(f) Eligibility for financial assistance.
(g) Grants to States for projects and productions;
applications; terms and conditions of State
plans; minimum allotments; excess
appropriations; cost limitations; grants to
regional groups; non-Federal funding;
definitions.
(h) Suspension of grants for defaults,
noncompliance with provisions and plans, and
diversion of funds; repayment of funds.
(i) Application for financial assistance;
requirements.
(j) Regulations for distribution of financial
assistance in installments; implementation.
(k) Reviews to ensure compliance with regulations.
(l) Use of financial assistance for obscene
project, production, etc.; repayment of
assistance; exceptions.
(m) Labor standards of professional performers and
personnel; healthy and safe working
conditions.
(n) Labor standards of laborers and mechanics.
(o) Correlation and development of endowment
programs with other Federal and non-Federal
programs; expenditure of appropriations.
(p) Program of contracts or grants-in-aid to public
agencies and private nonprofit organizations;
limitation on payments; authority of
Chairperson.
(q) National information and data collection system
on the arts, artists and art groups, and
audiences; development and implementation
plan; state of the arts reports.
954a. Access to the arts through support of education.
(a) Purposes.
(b) Program of contracts or grants.
(c) Advisory council on arts education.
955. National Council on the Arts.
(a) Inclusion within the National Endowment for the
Arts.
(b) Appointment and composition of Council.
(c) Terms of office; vacancies.
(d) Meetings of Council; quorum; written records.
(e) Compensation of members.
(f) Advisory functions; policies, programs, and
procedures; recommendations; authority of
Chairperson; action by Chairperson pursuant to
delegation of authority.
955a. Omitted.
955b. National Medal of Arts.
(a) Establishment.
(b) Award of Medal; conditions; recipients;
presentation ceremonies.
(c) Availability of funds.
956. National Endowment for the Humanities.
(a) Establishment.
(b) Chairperson of the Endowment; appointment,
term, reappointment; vacancy; expiration of
term.
(c) Functions of the Endowment; publications;
traditionally underrepresented recipients of
financial assistance.
(d) Coordination and development of Endowment
programs with other Federal and non-Federal
programs.
(e) Limitation on amount of grant for workshop
activities for which an admission or other
charge is made to the general public.
(f) Grants-in-aid programs; designation of State
administrative agency; matching funds;
applications and plans; allotments; cost
limitations; grants to regional groups;
non-Federal funding; definitions; suspension
of grants; single entity limitation.
(g) Payment of performers and supporting personnel;
standards, regulations, and procedures.
(h) Program of contracts or grants-in-aid to public
agencies and private nonprofit organizations;
limitation on payments.
(i) Interagency agreements.
(j) Payment of wages at prevailing rates; authority
of Secretary of Labor.
(k) National information and data collection system
on humanities, scholars, educational and
cultural groups, and audiences; development
and implementation plan; state of the
humanities reports.
(l) Eligibility of group for financial assistance.
(m) Annual awards.
956a. National Capital arts and cultural affairs; grant
programs.
957. National Council on the Humanities.
(a) Establishment.
(b) Composition; basis for selection of members;
representation of interests; recommendations
of national organizations.
(c) Term of office; vacancies; reappointment.
(d) Meetings; quorum.
(e) Compensation and travel expenses.
(f) Advisory functions: policies, programs, and
procedures; review of applications for
financial support; recommendations
prerequisite to action of Chairperson;
unilateral action by Chairperson pursuant to
delegation of authority.
957a. Omitted.
958. Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.
(a) Establishment.
(b) Composition; presiding officer; changes in
membership to meet changes in programs or
executive branch organization.
(c) Functions.
959. Administrative provisions.
(a) General authority of Chairpersons.
(b) Rules for distribution of donations, bequests,
and devises; gifts with or without conditions;
transfers for tax purposes.
(c) Advisory panels; membership; procedures.
(d) Endowment activities reports.
(e) Council activities reports.
(f) Post-award evaluation of assisted projects,
productions, and programs; reports; extension
of time for compliance; failure to satisfy
purposes of assistance.
959a. Gifts, bequests, and devises.
960. Authorization of appropriations.
(a) Contracts, grants-in-aid, and loans to groups,
individuals, public agencies, and private
nonprofit organizations; availability of
appropriations; guidelines.
(b) Availability of appropriated unexpended funds;
notice of availability of funds by advance
appropriation.
(c) Administrative appropriations.
(d) Total amount of appropriations.
(e) Prohibition of grants to production workshops
using admission proceeds for unauthorized
purposes.
(f) Availability of appropriations for arts
education.

SUBCHAPTER II - MUSEUM SERVICES
961 to 969. Omitted.