An Act to render immune from seizure under judicial process certain objects of cultural significance imported into the United States for temporary display or exhibition, and for other purposes
PL 89-259 (S.2273), enacted 10/19/1965

79 STAT. ] 
PUBLIC LAW 89-259-OCT. 19, 1965 
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section 5 of the Administrative Expenses Act (5 U.S.C. 73b-2) for 
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"(e) The Advisory Committee shall meet at the request of the Sec-
retary, 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 
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significance imported into the United States for temporary display or 
exMbition, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of Amenca in Congress assembled.^ That (a) whenever 
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any w^ork 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 
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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 pur-
pose 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 insti-
tution 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 agree-
ment or the enforcement of the obligation of any carrier under any 
contract for the transportation of any such object of cultural sig-
nificance; 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. 
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