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§410jj–6 Additional needs of leprosy patients and Native Hawaiians for employment and training; specific provisions
Title 16 › Chapter CHAPTER 1— - NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER LIX–H— - KALAUPAPA NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK › § 410jj–6
Summary
Give first hiring preference to qualified leprosy patients and Native Hawaiians for park jobs. Appointments must ignore other federal hiring preferences and any numerical staff limits. The Secretary must provide training so they can learn visitor-service skills and qualify for those jobs. Native Hawaiian — a person at least one-half descended from peoples living in the Hawaiian Islands before 1778.
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Title 16, §410jj–6
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The following provisions are made with respect to additional needs of the leprosy patients and Native Hawaiians for employment and training. (The term “Native Hawaiian” as used in this subchapter, means a descendant of not less than one-half part of the blood of the races inhabiting the Hawaiian Islands previous to the year 1778.)—
(1)Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary shall give first preference to qualified patients and Native Hawaiians in making appointments to positions established for the administration of the park, and the appointment of patients and Native Hawaiians shall be without regard to any provision of the Federal civil service laws giving an employment preference to any other class of applicant and without regard to any numerical limitation on personnel otherwise applicable.
(2)The Secretary shall provide training opportunities for patients and Native Hawaiians to develop skills necessary to qualify for the provision of visitor services and for appointment to positions referred to in paragraph (1).
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16 U.S.C. § 410jj–6
Title 16 — Conservation
Last Updated
Apr 6, 2026
Release point: 119-73