§12211 — Title 34 Navy | U.S. Code

§12211 Definitions

Title 34 › Subtitle Subtitle I— Comprehensive Acts › Chapter 121— VIOLENT CRIME CONTROL AND LAW ENFORCEMENT › Subchapter II— CRIME PREVENTION › Part E— National Community Economic Partnership › Subpart 3— miscellaneous provisions › § 12211

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

Defines key words used in this part. "Community development corporation" means a private, nonprofit group led by business, civic, and community leaders whose main work includes creating low-income housing or local economic projects that mostly help low-income people. "Local and private sector contribution" means money from local banks, state or local governments, charities, or nonprofits that will be used only to help finance private businesses together with funds from this program. "Population-losing community" means a county that lost at least 7 percent of its people from April 1, 1980 to April 1, 1990, per the Census. "Private business enterprise" means any business that makes products, provides services, builds facilities, or does other commercial work and agrees to direct jobs from these investments to certain people. "Target area" means an area named in an application whose residents have incomes at or below the median for the larger area. "Very low-income community" means a community where residents’ median income is 50 percent or less of the area median.

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As used in this part:

(1)The term “community development corporation” means a private, nonprofit corporation whose board of directors is comprised of business, civic and community leaders, and whose principal purpose includes the provision of low-income housing or community economic development projects that primarily benefit low-income individuals and communities.

(2)The term “local and private sector contribution” means the funds available at the local level (by private financial institutions, State and local governments) or by any private philanthropic organization and private, nonprofit organizations that will be committed and used solely for the purpose of financing private business enterprises in conjunction with amounts provided under this part.

(3)The term “population-losing community” means any county in which the net population loss is at least 7 percent from April 1, 1980 to April 1, 1990, as reported by the Bureau of the Census.

(4)The term “private business enterprise” means any business enterprise that is engaged in the manufacture of a product, provision of a service, construction or development of a facility, or that is involved in some other commercial, manufacturing or industrial activity, and that agrees to target job opportunities stemming from investments authorized under this part to certain individuals.

(5)The term “target area” means any area defined in an application for assistance under this part that has a population whose income does not exceed the median for the area within which the target area is located.

(6)The term “very low-income community” means a community in which the median income of the residents of such community does not exceed 50 percent of the median income of the area.

Editorial Notes

Codification Section was formerly classified to section 13851 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

§12211 Definitions

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