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PUBLIC LAW 93-383~AUG. 22, 1974
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(7) The Institute shall have a president and such other executive officers and employees as may be appointed by the Board at rates of compensation fixed by the Board. No such executive officer or employee may receive any salary or other compensation from any source other than the Institute during the period of his employment by the Institute. ^^^""^I'ltative (8) The Institute shall establish, with the advice and assistance of °Est^^biishment. the Aoademics-Research Council and other agencies and organizations which are knowledgeable in the field of building technology, a Consultative Council, membership in which shall be available to representatives of all appropriate private trade, professional, and labor organizations, private and public standards, code, and testing bodies, public regulatory agencies, and consumer groups, so as to insure a direct line of communication between such groups and the Institute and a vehicle for representative hearings on matters before the Institute. (d)(1) The Institute shall have no power to issue any shares of stock, or to declare or pay any dividends. (2) No part of the income or assets of the Institute shall inure to the benefit of any director, officer, employee, or other individual except as salary or reasonable compensation for services. (3) The Institute shall not contribute to or otherwise support any political party or candidate for elective public office. (e)(1) The Institute shall exercise its functions and responsibilities in four general areas, relating to building regulations, as follows: (A) Development, promulgation, and maintenance of nationally recognized performance criteria, standards, and other technical provisions for maintenance of life, safety, health, and public welfare suitable for adoption by building regulating jurisdictions and agencies, including test methods and other evaluative techniques relating to building systems, subsystems, components, products, and materials with due regard for consumer problems. (B) Evaluation and prequalification of existing and new building technology in accordance with subparagraph (A). fC) Conduct of needed investigations in direct support of subparagraphs (A) and (B). (D) Assembly, storage, and dissemination of technical data and other information directly related to subparagraphs (A), (B^,and(C). (2) The Institute in exorcising its functions and responsibilities described in paragraph CI) shall assign and deletrato. to the maximum extent possible, responsibility for conducting each of the needed activities described in paragraph (1) to one or more of the private organizations, institutions, agencies, and Federal and other governmental entities with a capacity to exercise or contribute to the exercise of such responsibility, monitor the performance achieved through assignment and delegation, and, when deemed necessary, reassign and delegate such responsibility, (3) The Institute in exercising its functions and responsibilities under paragraphs (1) and (2) shall (A) give particular attention to the development of methods for encouraging all sectors of the economy to cooperate with the Institute and to accept and use its technical findings, and to accept and use the nationally recognized performance criteria, standards, and other technical provisions developed for use in Federal, State, and local building codes and other regulations which result from the program of the Institute; (B) seek to assure that its actions are coordinated with related requirements which are imposed in connection with community find environmental development generally; and (C) consult with the Department of Justice and other agen-
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