§ 309. — Vocational training program; eligibility; contracts or agreements.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 25USC309]
TITLE 25--INDIANS
CHAPTER 7A--PROMOTION OF SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC WELFARE
Sec. 309. Vocational training program; eligibility; contracts or
agreements
In order to help adult Indians who reside on or near Indian
reservations to obtain reasonable and satisfactory employment, the
Secretary of the Interior is authorized to undertake a program of
vocational training that provides for vocational counseling or guidance,
institutional training in any recognized vocation or trade,
apprenticeship, and on the job training, for periods that do not exceed
twenty-four months, and, for nurses' training, for periods that do not
exceed thirty-six months, transportation to the place of training, and
subsistence during the course of training. The program shall be
available primarily to Indians who are not less than eighteen and not
more than thirty-five years of age and who reside on or near an Indian
reservation, and the program shall be conducted under such rules and
regulations as the Secretary may prescribe. For the purposes of this
program the Secretary is authorized to enter into contracts or
agreements with any Federal, State, or local governmental agency, or
with any private school which has a recognized reputation in the field
of vocational education and has successfully obtained employment for its
graduates in their respective fields of training, or with any
corporation or association which has an existing apprenticeship or on-
the-job training program which is recognized by industry and labor as
leading to skilled employment, or with any school of nursing offering a
three-year course of study leading to a diploma in nursing which is
accredited by a recognized body or bodies approved for such purpose by
the Secretary.
(Aug. 3, 1956, ch. 930, Sec. 1, 70 Stat. 986; Pub. L. 88-230, Sec. 1(a),
Dec. 23, 1963, 77 Stat. 471.)
Amendments
1963--Pub. L. 88-230 authorized Secretary of the Interior to
undertake a program for nurses' training for periods not exceeding 36
months and to enter into contracts with accredited schools of nursing
offering a 3-year course of study leading to a diploma in nursing.
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in sections 13e, 309a of this title.
