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Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare

Part A · Chapter 66 — Domestic Volunteer Services

§ 4956. Participation of program beneficiaries

Statutory text

To the maximum extent practicable, the people of the communities to be served by volunteers under this subchapter shall participate in planning, developing, and implementing programs thereunder, and the Director, after consultation with sponsoring agencies (including volunteers assigned to them) and the people served by such agencies, shall establish in regulations, a continuing mechanism for the meaningful participation of such program beneficiaries.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Domestic Volunteer Service Act of 1973

    Pub. L. 93–113 title I § 106 · 87 Stat. 394

    Enacted · 42 U.S.C. § 4956

    Pub. L. 93–113, title I, § 106, Oct. 1, 1973, 87 Stat. 398

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Pub. L. 93–113, title I, § 106, Oct. 1, 1973, 87 Stat. 398

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 106. participation’ of beneficiaries To the maximum extent practicable, the people of the communities to be served by volunteers under this title shall participate in planning, developing, and implementing programs thereunder, and the Director, after consultation with sponsoring agencies (including volunteers assigned to them) and the people served by such agencies, shall take all necessary steps to establish, in regulations he shall prescribe, a continuing mechanism for the meaningful participation of such program beneficiaries.

  2. Pub. L. 98–288 § 7 · 98 Stat. 189

    Substituted · 42 U.S.C. § 4956

    Pub. L. 98–288 substituted “establish in regulations” for “take all necessary steps to establish, in regulations he shall prescribe”

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Pub. L. 98–288 substituted “establish in regulations” for “take all necessary steps to establish, in regulations he shall prescribe”.

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 7. participation of beneficiaries Section 106 of the Act is amended by striking out “take all 42 USC 4956. necessary steps to establish, in regulations he shall prescribe” and insert in lieu thereof “establish in regulations”.

2 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

Amendments

1984—Pub. L. 98–288 substituted “establish in regulations” for “take all necessary steps to establish, in regulations he shall prescribe”.

Credits

1973–1984 · 2 acts
  1. 1973Pub. L. 93–113, title I, § 106, , 87 Stat. 398
  2. 1984Pub. L. 98–288, § 7, , 98 Stat. 191.
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(Pub. L. 93–113, title I, § 106, , 87 Stat. 398; Pub. L. 98–288, § 7, , 98 Stat. 191.)

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