§ 80r Findings
§ 80r-1 Definitions
§ 80r-2 Establishment of Museum
§ 80r-3 Council
§ 80r-4 Director and staff of the Museum
§ 80r-5 Educational and liaison programs
§ 80r-6 Building for the National Museum of African American History and Culture
§ 80r-7 Congressional Budget Act compliance
§ 80r-8 Consideration of recommendations of Presidential Commission
§ 80r-9 Authorization of appropriations

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Terms Used In U.S. Code > Title 20 > Chapter 3 > Subchapter XIV - National Museum of African American History and Culture

  • Annuity: A periodic (usually annual) payment of a fixed sum of money for either the life of the recipient or for a fixed number of years. A series of payments under a contract from an insurance company, a trust company, or an individual. Annuity payments are made at regular intervals over a period of more than one full year.
  • Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
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  • individual: shall include every infant member of the species homo sapiens who is born alive at any stage of development. See 1 USC 8
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  • Legacy: A gift of property made by will.
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  • officer: includes any person authorized by law to perform the duties of the office. See 1 USC 1
  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.
  • Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
  • Ranking minority member: The highest ranking (and usually longest serving) minority member of a committee or subcommittee.
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  • State: means a State, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or any other territory or possession of the United States. See 1 USC 7
  • Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
  • Uphold: The decision of an appellate court not to reverse a lower court decision.
  • writing: includes printing and typewriting and reproductions of visual symbols by photographing, multigraphing, mimeographing, manifolding, or otherwise. See 1 USC 1