42 U.S.C. § 4744: Grants to other organizations

Summary

The Office can give grants to other organizations to pay for up to 75 percent of the cost of training professional, administrative, or technical state or local government employees and officials. For fiscal years that begin after the three-year expiration following the effective date of the grant provisions of this chapter, grants may cover up to 50 percent. The Office must find that governments asked for the program, that training is not available or those groups will not provide it, and that the program meets the Office’s rules. “Other organization” means (1) groups that represent state or local governments at national, regional, statewide, areawide, or metropolitan levels, (2) associations of state or local public officials, or (3) nonprofits whose main job is offering advisory, research, development, educational, or related services to governments.

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(a)Amount of grants; conditions

The Office is authorized to make grants to other organizations to pay up to 75 per centum (or, with respect to fiscal years commencing after the expiration of three years following the effective date of the grant provisions of this chapter, up to 50 per centum) of the costs of providing training to professional, administrative, or technical employees and officials of State or local governments if the Office—

(1)finds that State or local governments have requested the proposed program;

(2)determines that the capability to provide such training does not exist, or is not readily available, within the Federal or the State or local governments requesting such program or within associations of State or local governments, or if such capability does exist that such government or association is not disposed to provide such training; and

(3)approves the program as meeting such requirements as may be prescribed by the Office in its regulations pursuant to this chapter.

(b)“Other organization” defined

For the purpose of this section “other organization” means—

(1)a national, regional, statewide, areawide, or metropolitan organization, representing member State or local governments;

(2)an association of State or local public officials; or

(3)a nonprofit organization one of whose principal functions is to offer professional advisory, research, development, educational or related services to governments.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

This chapter, referred to in subsec. (a), was in the original “this Act”, meaning Pub. L. 91–648, Jan. 5, 1971, 84 Stat. 1909, known as the Intergovernmental Personnel Act of 1970, which is classified principally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see

Short Title

note set out under section 4701 of this title and Tables. For

Effective Date

of the grant provisions of this chapter, referred to in subsec. (a), as being 180 days after Jan. 5, 1971, see section 4772 of this title.

Executive Documents

Transfer of Functions

“Office”, meaning Office of Personnel Management, substituted for “Commission”, meaning Civil Service Commission, in subsec. (a) pursuant to Reorg. Plan No. 2 of 1978, § 102, 43 F.R. 36037, 92 Stat. 3783, set out under section 1101 of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees, which transferred functions vested by statute in Civil Service Commission and Chairman thereof to Director of Office of Personnel Management (except as otherwise specified), effective Jan. 1, 1979, as provided by section 1–102 of Ex. Ord. No. 12107, Dec. 28, 1978, 44 F.R. 1055, set out under section 1101 of Title 5.

§4744 Grants to Other Organizations