43 CFR 3.17
§ 3.17 Preservation of collection.
United States · 43 CFR — Public Lands: Interior · Status: effective
Cite this
- Citation
- 43 CFR 3.17, § 3.17 Preservation of collection, United States, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/208753
- Permanent ID
ys:prov:208753@1- SHA-256
3cc59012649a30ebd1704df1e9437fab458e215043b941ebdc3babe09b1b9a42
The hash is SHA-256 of this version's text, with every run of whitespace collapsed to a single space and the ends trimmed. The ID always leads back here, and checking it says whether the text you cited is still the current version.
Full text
Every collection made under the authority of the act and of this part shall be preserved in the public museum designated in the permit and shall be accessible to the public. No such collection shall be removed from such public museum without the written authority of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, and then only to another public museum, where it shall be accessible to the public; and when any public museum, which is a depository of any collection made under the provisions of the act and this part, shall cease to exist, every such collection in such public museum shall thereupon revert to the national collections and be placed in the proper national depository.
Regulations concerning curation of federally owned or administered archeological collections are found in 36 CFR part 79. Objects excavated under the Antiquities Act may be eligible for disposal under subpart E of 36 CFR part 79.
Legislative history
This is a federal regulation, adopted through agency rulemaking under the Administrative Procedure Act — not enacted by a recorded vote of Congress.