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[CITE: 16USC430z-1]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
   CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
 
                 SUBCHAPTER LX--NATIONAL MILITARY PARKS
 
Sec. 430z-1. Landscaping park; employment of architects and 
        engineers
        
    In the discharge of his duties hereunder, the Secretary of the 
Interior, through the National Park Service, is authorized to employ, in 
his discretion, by contract or otherwise, landscape architects, 
architects, artists, engineers, and/or other expert consultants in 
accordance with the usual customs of the several professions and that 
expenditures for such employment shall be construed to be included in 
any appropriations hereafter authorized for any work under the 
objectives of sections 430y to 430z-3 of this title.

(Aug. 20, 1935, ch. 575, Sec. 3, 49 Stat. 662.)

                          Codification

    Provisions which authorized employment of landscape architects, 
architects, artists, engineers, and/or other expert consultants in 
accordance with the usual customs of the several professions ``without 
reference to civil-service requirements or to the Classification Act of 
1923, as amended'' were omitted as obsolete. 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.
    As to the compensation of such personnel, sections 1202 and 1204 of 
the Classification Act of 1949, 63 Stat. 972, 973, repealed the 
Classification Act of 1923 and all other laws or parts of laws 
inconsistent with the 1949 Act. The Classification Act of 1949 was 
repealed Pub. L. 89-554, Sept. 6, 1966, Sec. 8(a), 80 Stat. 632, and 
reenacted as chapter 51 and subchapter III of chapter 53 of Title 5. 
Section 5102 of Title 5 contains the applicability provisions of the 
1949 Act, and section 5103 of Title 5 authorizes the Office of Personnel 
Management to determine the applicability to specific positions and 
employees.

                          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, 
Secs. 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.
