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[CITE: 16USC18c]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
   CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
 
                   SUBCHAPTER I--NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
 
Sec. 18c. Rules and regulations; employees

    In the performance of his functions and duties under the provisions 
of sections 18 to 18d of this title, the Secretary of Commerce is 
authorized--
    (a) To prescribe, amend, and repeal such rules and regulations as he 
may deem necessary, and to accept contributions for carrying out the 
purposes of said sections; and
    (b) To employ, subject to chapter 51 and subchapter III of chapter 
53 of title 5, one special assistant and not to exceed five artists and 
illustrators.

(July 19, 1940, ch. 642, Sec. 4, 54 Stat. 774; Oct. 28, 1949, ch. 782, 
title XI, Sec. 1106(a), 63 Stat. 972; Pub. L. 93-193, Sec. 2, Dec. 19, 
1973, 87 Stat. 765.)

                          Codification

    Provisions of par. (b) authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to 
employ ``without regard to the civil-service laws'' were omitted as such 
employment is subject to the civil service laws unless specifically 
excepted by those laws or by laws enacted subsequent to Executive Order 
8743, Apr. 23, 1941, issued by the President pursuant to the Act of Nov. 
26, 1940, ch. 919, title I, Sec. 1, 54 Stat. 1211, which covered most 
excepted positions into the classified (competitive) civil service. The 
Order is set out as a note under section 3301 of Title 5, Government 
Organization and employees.
    ``Chapter 51 and subchapter III of chapter 53 of title 5'' 
substituted in par. (b) for ``the Classification Act of 1949, as 
amended'' on authority of Pub. L. 89-554, Sec. 7(b), Sept. 6, 1966, 80 
Stat. 631, the first section of which enacted Title 5.


                               Amendments

    1949--Par. (b). Act Oct. 28, 1949, substituted ``Classification Act 
of 1949'' for ``Classification Act of 1923''.


                                 Repeals

    Act Oct. 28, 1949, ch. 782, cited as a credit to this section, was 
repealed (subject to a savings clause) by Pub. L. 89-554, Sept. 6, 1966, 
Sec. 8, 80 Stat. 632, 655.

                          Transfer of Functions

    Secretary of Commerce substituted for Secretary of the Interior in 
view of transfer of functions to Secretary of Commerce from Secretary of 
the Interior by section 2 of Pub. L. 93-193. See Transfer of Functions 
note set out under section 18 of this title.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 18a, 18b, 18d of this title.
