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PUBLIC LAW 89-259-OCT. 19, 1965

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$100 per day including travel time and while serving away from their homes or ivgiilar places of business they may be allowed travel expenses, including per diem in lieu of subsistence, as authorized by section 5 of the Administrative Expenses Act (5 U.S.C. 73b-2) for ^o Stat. sos. persons in the Government service employed intermittently. 340. ^ ' ' "(e) The Advisory Committee shall meet at the request of the Secretary, but at least semiannually." Approved October 19, 1965.

Public Law 89-259 AN ACT October 19, 1965 To render immune from seizure under judicial process certain objects of cultural 1 ^ ^^73] ^significance imported into the United States for temporary display or exMbition, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of Amenca in Congress assembled.^ That (a) whenever Ex"m^tio°nlrom' any work of art or other object of cultural significance is imported seizure. into the United States from any foreign country, pursuant to an ^^^''^^aff ""^^ '^^" agreement entered into between the foreign owner or custodian thereof pXucrtion in and the United States or one or more cultural or educational institu- Federal Register. tions within the United States providing for the temporary exhibition or display thereof within the United States at any cultural exhibition, assembly, activity, or festival administered, operated, or sponsored, without profit, by any such cultural or educational institution, no court of the United States, any State, the District of Columbia, or any territory or possession of the United States may issue or enforce any judicial process, or enter any judgment, decree, or order, for the purpose or having the effect of depriving such institution, or any carrier engaged in transporting such work or object within the United States, of custody or control of such object if before the importation of such object the President or his designee has determined that such object is of cultural significance and that the temporary exhibition or display thereof within the United States is in the national interest, and a notice to that effect has been published in the Federal Register. (b) If in any judicial proceeding in any such court any such process, judgment, decree, or order is sought, issued, or entered, the United States attorney for the judicial district within which such proceeding is pending shall be entitled as of right to intervene as a party to that proceeding, and upon request made by either the institution adversely affected, or upon direction by the Attorney General if the United States is adversely affected, shall apply to such court for the denial, quashing, or vacating thereof. (c) Nothing contained in this Act shall preclude (1) any judicial action for or in aid of the enforcement of the terms of any such agreement or the enforcement of the obligation of any carrier under any contract for the transportation of any such object of cultural significance; or (2) the institution or prosecution by or on behalf of any such institution or the United States of any action for or in aid of the fulfillment of any obligation assumed by such institution or the United States pursuant to any such agreement. Approved October 19, 1965. 49-850 0-66—65

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