Title 25, IndiansRelease 119-102
§5116 Standards for Indians Appointed to Indian Office
Title 25 › CHAPTER 45 — PROTECTION OF INDIANS AND CONSERVATION OF RESOURCES › § 5116
Summary
The Secretary of the Interior must set rules about health, age, character, experience, knowledge, and ability for Indians who may be hired to work in Indian Office jobs that serve any tribe. These rules apply even when hires are made outside the regular civil service system, and Indians who meet them must be given priority for filling those vacancies.
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Title 25, §5116
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The Secretary of the Interior is directed to establish standards of health, age, character, experience, knowledge, and ability for Indians who may be appointed, without regard to civil-service laws, to the various positions maintained, now or hereafter, by the Indian Office, in the administration of functions or services affecting any Indian tribe. Such qualified Indians shall hereafter have the preference to appointment to vacancies in any such positions.
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Notes & Related Subsidiaries
Editorial Notes
Codification Section was formerly classified to section 472 of this title prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Conversion to Career AppointmentStatus of Indian appointed to Federal service under excepted appointment to be converted to career appointment in competitive service after three years of continuous service and satisfactory performance, see section 5323(m) of this title.
Executive Documents
Transfer of Functions
For
Transfer of Functions
of other officers, employees, and agencies of Department of the Interior, with certain exceptions, to Secretary of the Interior, with power to delegate, see Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1950, §§ 1, 2, eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 3174, 64 Stat. 1262, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.
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25 U.S.C. § 5116
Title 25, Indians
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102