§ 17j. — Traveling expenses of National Park System employees and dependents of deceased employees.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 16USC17j]
TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
SUBCHAPTER I--NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
Sec. 17j. Traveling expenses of National Park System employees
and dependents of deceased employees
In the administration of the National Park System, the Secretary of
the Interior is authorized, under regulations prescribed by him, to pay
(a) the traveling expenses of employees, including the costs of packing,
crating, and transporting (including draying) their personal property,
upon permanent change of station of such employees and (b) the traveling
expenses as aforesaid of dependents of deceased employees (i) to the
nearest housing reasonably available and of a standard not less than
that which is vacated, and to include compensation for not to exceed
sixty days rental cost thereof, in the case of an employee who occupied
Government housing and the death of such employee requires that housing
to be promptly vacated, and (ii) to the nearest port of entry in the
conterminous forty-eight States in the case of an employee whose last
permanent station was outside the conterminous forty-eight States.
(May 26, 1930, ch. 324, Sec. 11, 46 Stat. 383; Pub. L. 91-383, Sec. 5,
Aug. 18, 1970, as added Pub. L. 94-458, Sec. 2, Oct. 7, 1976, 90 Stat.
1939.)
Amendments
1976--Pub. L. 91-383, Sec. 5, as added by Pub. L. 94-458, included
travel expenses for dependents of a deceased National Park System
employee.
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.
