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[CITE: 16USC410jj-7]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
   CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
 
          SUBCHAPTER LIX-H--KALAUPAPA NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK
 
Sec. 410jj-7. Advisory Commission


(a) Establishment; membership

    There is hereby established the Kalaupapa National Historical Park 
Advisory Commission (hereinafter referred to as the ``Commission''), 
which shall consist of eleven members each appointed by the Secretary 
for a term of five years as follows:
        (1) seven members who shall be present or former patients, 
    elected by the patient community; and
        (2) four members appointed from recommendations submitted by the 
    Governor of Hawaii, at least one of whom shall be a Native Hawaiian.

(b) Chairman; vacancies

    The Secretary shall designate one member to be Chairman. Any vacancy 
in the Commission shall be filled in the same manner in which the 
original appointment was made.

(c) Compensation; expenses

    A member of the Commission shall serve without compensation as such. 
The Secretary is authorized to pay the expenses reasonably incurred by 
the Commission in carrying out its responsibilities under this Act on 
vouchers signed by the Chairman.

(d) Functions

    The Secretary shall consult with and seek the advice of the 
Commission with respect to the development and operation of the park 
including training programs. The Commission shall, in addition, advise 
the Secretary concerning public visitation to the park, and such advice 
with respect to numbers of visitors shall be binding upon the Secretary 
if the Commission certifies to him that such advice is based on a 
referendum, held under the auspices of the Commission, of all patients 
on the official Kalaupapa Registry.

(e) Termination

    The Commission shall expire twenty-five years from December 22, 
1980.

(Pub. L. 96-565, title I, Sec. 108, Dec. 22, 1980, 94 Stat. 3323.)

                       References in Text

    This Act, referred to in subsec. (c), is Pub. L. 96-565, Dec. 22, 
1980, 94 Stat. 3321, as amended, which enacted this subchapter and 
provisions set out as a note under section 2991a of Title 42, The Public 
Health and Welfare. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, 
see Tables.
