---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 3705"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "3705"
heading: "Volunteer status"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/3705"
units:
  - "Chapter 57 — National Fish and Wildlife Foundation"
---

# §3705. Volunteer status


The [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior or the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of Commerce may accept, without regard to the civil service classification laws, rules, or regulations, the services of the [Foundation](/usc/16/450ss–1.md?p=1), the [Board](/usc/16/1447a.md?p=1), and the officers and employees of the [Board](/usc/16/1447a.md?p=1), without compensation from the Department of the Interior or the Department of Commerce, as volunteers in the performance of the functions authorized herein, in the manner provided for under [section 742f(c) of this title](/usc/16/742f.md?p=c).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 98–244, § 6, Mar. 26, 1984, 98 Stat. 109; Pub. L. 106–408, title II, § 203(c)(2), Nov. 1, 2000, 114 Stat. 1779.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2000—Pub. L. 106–408 substituted “Secretary of the Interior or the Secretary of Commerce” for “Secretary” and inserted “or the Department of Commerce” after “Department of the Interior”.