42 U.S.C. § 9804: Advisory Community…

Summary

The President can create a National Advisory Community Investment Board to help match private investors and businesses with community development projects. The Board must have 15 members, picked by the President for staggered terms after talking with the Secretary of Health and Human Services, and they are not subject to civil service rules. Members should come from the investment and business world and related fields. The Secretary and the administrator of community economic development programs are automatic members. The Board meets when the chair calls it, but at least 3 times a year. The Secretary must run this work through an appropriate office. Local community development corporations may set up their own advisory community investment boards of up to 15 members. Those local members are chosen by the corporation’s governing body after consulting local officials. The local boards have the same basic jobs: advise on ways to attract private investment, tell businesses and investors about project opportunities, and suggest ways everyone can work together for mutual benefit.

Title 42, §9804

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(a)National Community Investment Board; functions, composition, etc.

(1)The President is authorized to establish a National Advisory Community Investment Board (hereinafter in this section referred to as the “Investment Board”). Such Investment Board shall be composed of 15 members appointed, for staggered terms and without regard to the civil service laws, by the President, in consultation with the Secretary of Health and Human Services (hereinafter in this subchapter referred to as the “Secretary”). Such members shall be representative of the investment and business communities and appropriate fields of endeavor related to this subchapter. The Investment Board shall meet at the call of the chairperson, but not less often than 3 times each year. The Secretary and the administrator of community economic development programs shall be ex officio members of the Investment Board.

(2)The Secretary shall carry out the provisions of this subchapter through an appropriate office.

(b)Function

The Investment Board shall promote cooperation between private investors and businesses and community development corporation projects through—

(1)advising the Secretary and the community development corporations on ways to facilitate private investment;

(2)advising businesses and other investors of opportunities in community development corporation projects; and

(3)advising the Secretary, community development corporations, and private investors and businesses of ways in which they might engage in mutually beneficial efforts.

(c)Local advisory community investment boards; establishment, composition, etc.

The governing body of each Community Development Corporation may establish an advisory community investment board composed of not to exceed 15 members who shall be appointed by the governing body after consultation with appropriate local officials. Each such board shall promote cooperation between private investors and businesses and the governing body of the Community Development Corporation through—

(1)advising the governing body on ways to facilitate private investors;

(2)advising businesses and other investors of opportunities in Community Development Corporation projects; and

(3)advising the governing body, private investors, and businesses of ways in which they might engage in mutually beneficial efforts.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Amendments

1998—Subsec. (a)(2). Pub. L. 105–285 substituted “through an appropriate office” for “through the Office of Community Services established in section 9905(a) of this title”.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Termination of Advisory BoardsAdvisory boards established after Jan. 5, 1973, to terminate not later than the expiration of the 2-year period beginning on the date of their establishment, unless, in the case of a board established by the President or an officer of the Federal Government, such board is renewed by appropriate action prior to the expiration of such 2-year period, or in the case of a board established by the Congress, its duration is otherwise provided for by law. See section 1001(2) and 1013 of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.

§9804 Advisory Community Investment Board