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§6107 Definitions

Title 42 › CHAPTER 76 — AGE DISCRIMINATION IN FEDERALLY ASSISTED PROGRAMS › § 6107

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

For the rules in this chapter, four terms are given special meanings. Commission means the Commission on Civil Rights. Secretary means the Secretary of Health and Human Services. Federal department or agency means any agency as defined in section 551 of title 5 and also includes the United States Postal Service and the Postal Regulatory Commission. Program or activity means all parts of any entity that get federal money. It covers state and local government units and the parts that give or receive aid; colleges, universities, public higher education systems, and local educational agencies (see section 7801 of title 20) and other school systems; whole private organizations that get federal money as a whole or mainly provide education, health care, housing, social services, or parks and recreation (or the whole facility that gets the aid); and any entity set up by two or more of these kinds of organizations.

Full Legal Text

Title 42, §6107

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For purposes of this chapter—
(1)the term “Commission” means the Commission on Civil Rights;
(2)the term “Secretary” means the Secretary of Health and Human Services;
(3)the term “Federal department or agency” means any agency as defined in section 551 of title 5 and includes the United States Postal Service and the Postal Regulatory Commission; and
(4)the term “program or activity” means all of the operations of—
(A)(i)a department, agency, special purpose district, or other instrumentality of a State or of a local government; or
(ii)the entity of such State or local government that distributes such assistance and each such department or agency (and each other State or local government entity) to which the assistance is extended, in the case of assistance to a State or local government;
(B)(i)a college, university, or other postsecondary institution, or a public system of higher education; or
(ii)a local educational agency (as defined in section 7801 of title 20), system of vocational education, or other school system;
(C)(i)an entire corporation, partnership, or other private organization, or an entire sole proprietorship—
(I)if assistance is extended to such corporation, partnership, private organization, or sole proprietorship as a whole; or
(II)which is principally engaged in the business of providing education, health care, housing, social services, or parks and recreation; or
(ii)the entire plant or other comparable, geographically separate facility to which Federal financial assistance is extended, in the case of any other corporation, partnership, private organization, or sole proprietorship; or
(D)any other entity which is established by two or more of the entities described in subparagraph (A), (B), or (C);
any part of which is extended Federal financial assistance.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Amendments

2015—Par. (4)(B)(ii). Pub. L. 114–95 made technical amendment to reference in original act which appears in text as reference to section 7801 of title 20. 2006—Par. (3). Pub. L. 109–435 substituted “Postal Regulatory Commission” for “Postal Rate Commission”. 2002—Par. (4)(B)(ii). Pub. L. 107–110 substituted “7801” for “8801”. 1994—Par. (4)(B)(ii). Pub. L. 103–382 substituted “section 8801 of title 20” for “section 198(a)(10), of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965”. 1988—Par. (4). Pub. L. 100–259 added par. (4).

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Change of Name

“Secretary of Health and Human Services” substituted for “Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare” in par. (2) pursuant to section 509(b) of Pub. L. 96–88, which is classified to section 3508(b) of Title 20, Education.

Effective Date

of 2015 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 114–95 effective Dec. 10, 2015, except with respect to certain noncompetitive programs and competitive programs, see section 5 of Pub. L. 114–95, set out as a note under section 6301 of Title 20, Education.

Effective Date

of 2002 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 107–110 effective Jan. 8, 2002, except with respect to certain noncompetitive programs and competitive programs, see section 5 of Pub. L. 107–110, set out as an

Effective Date

note under section 6301 of Title 20, Education. Exclusion From CoverageAmendment by Pub. L. 100–259 not to be construed to extend application of Age Discrimination Act of 1975 (this chapter) to ultimate beneficiaries of Federal financial assistance excluded from coverage before Mar. 22, 1988, see section 7 of Pub. L. 100–259, set out as a

Construction

note under section 1687 of Title 20, Education. Abortion NeutralityAmendment by Pub. L. 100–259 not to be construed to force or require any individual or hospital or any other institution, program, or activity receiving Federal funds to perform or pay for an abortion, see section 8 of Pub. L. 100–259, set out as a note under section 1688 of Title 20, Education.

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Citation

42 U.S.C. § 6107

Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110