§309 — Title 25 Indians | U.S. Code

Summary

Allows the Secretary of the Interior to run a job-training program for adult Indians who live on or near reservations to help them get suitable work. The program can offer career counseling, classroom training in any recognized trade, apprenticeships, and on-the-job training for up to 24 months, and nursing training for up to 36 months. It can pay travel and living costs during training. It is mainly for Indians aged 18 to 35. The Secretary may make agreements with government agencies, reputable private vocational schools that place graduates, employers or groups with industry-recognized apprenticeships, and three-year accredited nursing schools approved by the Secretary.

Title 25, §309

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In order to help adult Indians who reside on or near Indian reservations to obtain reasonable and satisfactory employment, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to undertake a program of vocational training that provides for vocational counseling or guidance, institutional training in any recognized vocation or trade, apprenticeship, and on the job training, for periods that do not exceed twenty-four months, and, for nurses’ training, for periods that do not exceed thirty-six months, transportation to the place of training, and subsistence during the course of training. The program shall be available primarily to Indians who are not less than eighteen and not more than thirty-five years of age and who reside on or near an Indian reservation, and the program shall be conducted under such rules and regulations as the Secretary may prescribe. For the purposes of this program the Secretary is authorized to enter into contracts or agreements with any Federal, State, or local governmental agency, or with any private school which has a recognized reputation in the field of vocational education and has successfully obtained employment for its graduates in their respective fields of training, or with any corporation or association which has an existing apprenticeship or on-the-job training program which is recognized by industry and labor as leading to skilled employment, or with any school of nursing offering a three-year course of study leading to a diploma in nursing which is accredited by a recognized body or bodies approved for such purpose by the Secretary.

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1963—Pub. L. 88–230 authorized Secretary of the Interior to undertake a program for nurses’ training for periods not exceeding 36 months and to enter into contracts with accredited schools of nursing offering a 3-year course of study leading to a diploma in nursing.

§309 Vocational training program; eligibility; contracts or agreements

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Title 25, §309

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