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36 U.S.C. § 151704 — Officers and employees
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**(a) Secretary of the Board.—**
(1) The Librarian of Congress shall appoint a Secretary of the Board to serve as executive director of the corporation. The Librarian may remove the Secretary.
(2) The Secretary must be knowledgeable and experienced in matters relating to—
(A) film preservation and restoration activities;
(B) financial management; and
(C) fundraising.
**(b) Appointment of Officers.—** Except as provided in subsection (a) of this section, the board of directors appoints, removes, and replaces officers of the corporation.
**(c) Appointment of Employees.—** Except as provided in subsection (a) of this section, the Secretary appoints, removes, and replaces employees of the corporation.
**(d) Status and Compensation of Employees.—** Employees of the corporation (including the Secretary)—
(1) are not employees of the Library of Congress;
(2) shall be appointed and removed without regard to the provisions of title 5 governing appointments in the competitive service; and
(3) may be paid without regard to chapter 51 and subchapter III of chapter 53 of title 5, except that an employee may not be paid more than the annual rate of basic pay for level GS–15 of the General Schedule under [section 5107 of title 5](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section5107&num=0&edition=prelim).
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**(a) Secretary of the Board.—**
(1) The Librarian of Congress shall appoint a Secretary of the Board to serve as executive director of the corporation. The Librarian may remove the Secretary.
(2) The Secretary must be knowledgeable and experienced in matters relating to—
(A) film preservation and restoration activities;
(B) financial management; and
(C) fundraising.
**(b) Appointment of Officers.—** Except as provided in subsection (a) of this section, the board of directors appoints, removes, and replaces officers of the corporation.
**(c) Appointment of Employees.—** Except as provided in subsection (a) of this section, the Secretary appoints, removes, and replaces employees of the corporation.
**(d) Status and Compensation of Employees.—** Employees of the corporation (including the Secretary)—
(1) are not employees of the Library of Congress;
(2) shall be appointed and removed without regard to the provisions of title 5 governing appointments in the competitive service; and
(3) may be paid without regard to chapter 51 and subchapter III of chapter 53 of title 5, except that an employee may not be paid more than the annual rate of basic pay for level GS–15 of the General Schedule under [section 5107 of title 5](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section5107&num=0&edition=prelim).
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Except as otherwise provided by this chapter, each agency shall place each position under its jurisdiction in its appropriate class and grade in conformance with standards published by the Office of Personnel Management or, if no published standards apply directly, consistently with published standards. When facts warrant, an agency may change a position which it has placed in a class or grade under this section from that class or grade to another class or grade. Subject to subchapter VI of chapter 53 of this title, these actions of an agency are the basis for pay and personnel transactions until changed by certificate of the Office.
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**(a)**
(1) The General Schedule, the symbol for which is “GS”, is the basic pay schedule for positions to which this subchapter applies. Each employee to whom this subchapter applies is entitled to basic pay in accordance with the General Schedule.
(2) The General Schedule is a schedule of annual rates of basic pay, consisting of 15 grades, designated “GS–1” through “GS–15”, consecutively, with 10 rates of pay for each such grade. The rates of pay of the General Schedule are adjusted in accordance with section 5303.
**(b)** When payment is made on the basis of an hourly, daily, weekly, or biweekly rate, the rate is computed from the appropriate annual rate of basic pay named by subsection (a) of this section in accordance with the rules prescribed by [section 5504(b) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section5504/b&num=0&edition=prelim).
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TITLE 36—PATRIOTIC AND NATIONAL OBSERVANCES, CEREMONIES,
AND ORGANIZATIONS
§ 151704
(4) The terms of office of the directors are 4
years. There shall be no limit to the number of
terms to which any individual may be ap-
pointed.
(5) A vacancy on the board shall be filled with-
in 120 days in the manner in which the original
appointment was made.
(c) CHAIR.—The Librarian shall appoint one of
the directors as the initial chair of the board for
a 2-year term. Thereafter, the chair shall be ap-
pointed and removed in accordance with the by-
laws of the corporation.
(d) QUORUM.—A majority of the current mem-
bership of the board is a quorum.
(e) MEETINGS.—The board shall meet at the
call of the Librarian or the chair at least once
each year. If a director misses three consecutive
regularly scheduled meetings, the director may
be removed from the board by the Librarian and
that vacancy may be filled as provided in sub-
section (b) of this section.
(f) COMPENSATION AND REIMBURSEMENT.—Direc-
tors serve without compensation but may be re-
imbursed for actual and necessary travel and
subsistence expenses incurred in performing du-
ties for the corporation.
(g) LIABILITY OF DIRECTORS.—Directors are not
personally liable, except for gross negligence.
(Pub. L. 105–225, Aug. 12, 1998, 112 Stat. 1404; Pub.
L. 109–9, title III, § 312(a), Apr. 27, 2005, 119 Stat.
226; Pub. L. 110–336, § 3(b)(3), Oct. 2, 2008, 122 Stat.
3728.)
HISTORICAL AND REVISION NOTES
Revised
Section
Source (U.S. Code)
Source (Statutes at Large)
151703(a) .....
36:5702(a) (1st sen-
tence words be-
fore 1st comma).
Oct. 11, 1996, Pub. L. 104–285,
title
II,
§§ 203(a)–(f),
(g)(2)(A) (last sentence re-
lated to board of direc-
tors), 204(c)(5) (words after
2d comma), 110 Stat.
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