Title 16, ConservationRelease 119-73not60

§410jj–6 Additional Needs of Leprosy Patients and Native Hawaiians for Employment and Training; Specific Provisions

Title 16 › Chapter 1— NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES › Subchapter LIX–H— KALAUPAPA NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK › § 410jj–6

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary must give first hiring preference to qualified leprosy patients and Native Hawaiians for jobs that run the park. Those hires do not have to follow other federal civil-service hiring preferences and are not limited by usual staffing caps. The Secretary must also provide training so these people can learn visitor-service skills and qualify for those jobs. Native Hawaiian: a person who is at least one-half descended from the 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 5, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60