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

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Summary

Whenever any work of art or other object of cultural significance is imported in to the United States from any foreign country for the temporary exhibition or display within the United States at any cultural exhibition, assembly, activity, or festival, no court 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 of custody or control of the art object. Before the importation of such object the President will determine if such object is of cultural significance and that the temporary exhibition or display within the United States is in the national interest, and a notice to that effect will be published in the Federal Register.

Subject

Federal Register

Category

Smithsonian Legal Documents

Legal document information

  • 79 Stat. 985
  • Title 22, Foreign Relations and Intercourse
  • Public Law

Citation information

Statutes at Large

Contained within

79 Stat. 985 (1965); Pub. L. No. 89-259 (Book)

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

  • 1966
  • 10/19/1965

Topic

  • Art
  • Judicial process
  • Exhibitions
  • Protection
  • Cultural property
  • Art--Protection
  • Art objects
  • Cultural property--Protection

Form/Genre

Public Law

Physical description

Number of pages: 1; Page Numbers: 985

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