§ 430z-1. — Landscaping park; employment of architects and engineers.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[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the Classification Act of 1949, 63 Stat. 972, 973, repealed the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repealed Pub.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.
