Sec. 273. DEFINITIONS

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## SEC. 273 DEFINITIONS As used in this subtitle: ####

(1)Museum The term “**museum**” means a public, tribal,1 or private nonprofit agency or institution organized on a permanent basis for essentially educational, cultural heritage, or aesthetic purposes, that utilizes a professional staff, owns or utilizes tangible objects, cares for the tangible objects, and exhibits the tangible objects to the public on a regular basis. Such term includes museums that have tangible and digital collections and includes aquariums, arboretums, botanical gardens, art museums, children's museums, general museums, historic houses and sites, history museums, nature centers, natural history and anthropology museums, planetariums, science and technology centers, specialized museums, and zoological parks. 1Section 17(1) of Public Law 115–410 amends paragraph

(1)by inserting “**, tribal,**” after “**public**”. Such amendment was carried out to the first occurrence of the word “**public**”; however the amendment did not specify to which occurrence of such word to carry out the amendment. ####

(2)State The term “**State**” means each of the 50 States of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commomwealth of Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, and the Republic of Palau. **[**[20 U.S.C. 9172](/us/usc/t20/s9172)**]** Enacted September 30, 1996, P.L. 104–208, title VII, sec. 702, 110 Stat. 3009–303, September 25, 2003, P.L. 108–81, title III, secs. 302, 306(1) 117 Stat. 1000, 1002, December 22, 2010, P.L. 111–340, title III, sec. 302, 124 Stat. 3603, December 31, 2018, P.L. 115-410, sec. 17, 132 Stat. 5420.

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