4-12-112 - Black history.
4-12-112. Black history.
(a) The Tennessee arts commission, acting upon the recommendation of the museum director, is hereby authorized to contract with the Beck Cultural Exchange Center, Knoxville, for either the appropriate deposit, display, examination, or preservation, or any of these, at the center of such items or collections of articles, specimens and relics owned by the state and administered by the commission, as may be deemed by the commission and by the center to be of special interest to the black citizens of this state.
(b) The terms of any such contract shall ensure that adequate steps are undertaken to protect and preserve all such items for the benefit of future Tennesseans.
[Acts 1983, ch. 245, § 2.]