Title 42, The Public Health and WelfareRelease 119-102
§4956 Participation of Program Beneficiaries
Title 42 › CHAPTER 66 — DOMESTIC VOLUNTEER SERVICES › SUBCHAPTER I — NATIONAL VOLUNTEER ANTIPOVERTY PROGRAMS › Part A — Volunteers in Service to America › § 4956
Summary
Communities must, when possible, help plan and run volunteer programs; the Director must, after consulting sponsors, volunteers, and beneficiaries, make rules for ongoing meaningful participation.
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Title 42, §4956
The Public Health and Welfare, Source: USLM XML via OLRC
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.
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1984—Pub. L. 98–288 substituted “establish in
Regulations
” for “take all necessary steps to establish, in
Regulations
he shall prescribe”.
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42 U.S.C. § 4956
Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102