{"identifier":"/us/usc/t2/s159","title_num":"2","num":"§ 159.","heading":"Perpetual succession and suits by or against Library of Congress Trust Fund Board","status":null,"guid":"iddd62c87f-0974-11f0-acfd-82f4bd9597b0","source_credit":"(Mar. 3, 1925, ch. 423, § 3, 43 Stat. 1108; Jan. 27, 1926, ch. 6, § 1, 44 Stat. 2; June 25, 1936, ch. 804, 49 Stat. 1921; June 25, 1948, ch. 646, § 32(a), 62 Stat. 991; May 24, 1949, ch. 139, § 127, 63 Stat. 107.)","seq_in_title":554,"parent_identifier":"/us/usc/t2/ch5","ancestors":[{"identifier":"/us/usc/t2","level":"title","num":"Title 2—","heading":"THE CONGRESS","status":null,"is_section":false},{"identifier":"/us/usc/t2/ch5","level":"chapter","num":"CHAPTER 5—","heading":"LIBRARY OF CONGRESS","status":null,"is_section":false}],"xml":"<section xmlns=\"http://xml.house.gov/schemas/uslm/1.0\" xmlns:xsi=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance\" xmlns:dc=\"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/\" xmlns:dcterms=\"http://purl.org/dc/terms/\" style=\"-uslm-lc:I80\" id=\"id42d221a6-3b28-11eb-b57d-ac6ded64e2e5\" identifier=\"/us/usc/t2/s159\"><num value=\"159\">§ 159.</num><heading> Perpetual succession and suits by or against Library of Congress Trust Fund Board</heading><content>\n<p style=\"-uslm-lc:I11\" class=\"indent0\">The board shall have perpetual succession, with all the usual powers and obligations of a trustee, including the power to sell, except as herein limited, in respect of all property, moneys, or securities which shall be conveyed, transferred, assigned, bequeathed, delivered, or paid over to it for the purposes above specified. The board may be sued in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, which is given jurisdiction of such suits, for the purpose of enforcing the provisions of any trust accepted by it.</p>\n</content><sourceCredit id=\"id42d221a7-3b28-11eb-b57d-ac6ded64e2e5\">(<ref href=\"/us/act/1925-03-03/ch423/s3\">Mar. 3, 1925, ch. 423, § 3</ref>, <ref href=\"/us/stat/43/1108\">43 Stat. 1108</ref>; <ref href=\"/us/act/1926-01-27/ch6/s1\">Jan. 27, 1926, ch. 6, § 1</ref>, <ref href=\"/us/stat/44/2\">44 Stat. 2</ref>; <ref href=\"/us/act/1936-06-25/ch804\">June 25, 1936, ch. 804</ref>, <ref href=\"/us/stat/49/1921\">49 Stat. 1921</ref>; <ref href=\"/us/act/1948-06-25/ch646/s32/a\">June 25, 1948, ch. 646, § 32(a)</ref>, <ref href=\"/us/stat/62/991\">62 Stat. 991</ref>; <ref href=\"/us/act/1949-05-24/ch139/s127\">May 24, 1949, ch. 139, § 127</ref>, <ref href=\"/us/stat/63/107\">63 Stat. 107</ref>.)</sourceCredit>\n<notes type=\"uscNote\" id=\"id42d221a8-3b28-11eb-b57d-ac6ded64e2e5\">\n<note style=\"-uslm-lc:I74\" role=\"crossHeading\" topic=\"editorialNotes\" id=\"id42d221a9-3b28-11eb-b57d-ac6ded64e2e5\"><heading class=\"centered\"><b>Editorial Notes</b></heading></note>\n<note style=\"-uslm-lc:I74\" topic=\"amendments\" id=\"id42d221aa-3b28-11eb-b57d-ac6ded64e2e5\"><heading class=\"centered smallCaps\">Amendments</heading><p style=\"-uslm-lc:I21\" class=\"indent0\">1926—Act <date date=\"1926-01-27\">Jan. 27, 1926</date>, inserted “including the power to sell” in first sentence.</p>\n</note>\n<note style=\"-uslm-lc:I74\" role=\"crossHeading\" topic=\"statutoryNotes\" id=\"id42d221ab-3b28-11eb-b57d-ac6ded64e2e5\"><heading class=\"centered\"><b>Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries</b></heading></note>\n<note style=\"-uslm-lc:I78\" topic=\"changeOfName\" id=\"id42d221ac-3b28-11eb-b57d-ac6ded64e2e5\">\n<heading class=\"centered smallCaps\">Change of Name</heading>\n<p style=\"-uslm-lc:I21\" class=\"indent0\">Act <date date=\"1948-06-25\">June 25, 1948</date>, eff. <date date=\"1948-09-01\">Sept. 1, 1948</date>, as amended by act <date date=\"1949-05-24\">May 24, 1949</date>, substituted “United States District Court for the District of Columbia” for “district court of the United States for the District of Columbia”.</p>\n<p style=\"-uslm-lc:I21\" class=\"indent0\">Act <date date=\"1936-06-25\">June 25, 1936</date>, provided that the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia is to be known as the District Court of the United States for the District of Columbia.</p>\n</note>\n</notes>\n</section>","provision":null,"duplicates":[],"release":{"label":"119-4","currency_date":"2025-03-15","congress":119,"law_num":4,"excluded_laws":[],"update_num":null,"seq":352,"is_partial":false,"caveat":null,"titles_affected":["01","02","05","06","07","08","14","16","18","20","22","42"],"ingested_titles":[]},"served_from":{"label":"119-4","currency_date":"2025-03-15","congress":119,"law_num":4,"excluded_laws":[],"update_num":null,"seq":352,"is_partial":false,"caveat":null,"titles_affected":["01","02","05","06","07","08","14","16","18","20","22","42"],"ingested_titles":[]},"content_first_seen":{"label":"116-214","currency_date":"2020-12-05","congress":116,"law_num":214,"excluded_laws":[],"update_num":null,"seq":218,"is_partial":false,"caveat":null,"titles_affected":["02","09","11a","15","16","18","18a","20","21","22","28a","31","37","38","39","40","41","51","52","54"],"ingested_titles":[]},"is_exact":true,"note":null}