20-48-416. Designation as state entity for carrying out federal acts.

20-48-416. Designation as state entity for carrying out federal acts. (a) The Board of Developmental Disabilities Services is designated as the single state entity for carrying out any federal act or law pertaining to individuals with intellectual disabilities and other forms of developmental disabilities. (b) The board may take all action of every nature whatever necessary or desirable in complying with the requirements of any federal act or law and accomplishing the purposes thereof, including without limitation: (1) The receiving, handling, and disbursing of grants and funds appropriated by any federal act or law; (2) The making of provisions to assure full consideration of all aspects of services essential to planning for comprehensive state and community action to combat the effects of intellectual and developmental disabilities and provide services for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities, including services in the fields of education, employment, rehabilitation, habilitation, welfare, health, and the law, and services provided through community programs for and institutions for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities; (3) The preparing and submitting of plans for expenditure of such grants and funds and providing the assurance required by any federal act or law as to carrying out the purposes of any federal act or law; (4) The preparing and submitting of reports of the activities of human developmental centers in carrying out the purposes of any federal act or law in such form and containing such information as may be required by any federal act or law and keeping records and affording access to the records in order to assure correctness and verification of such reports as may be required by any federal act or law; (5) The providing for such fiscal control and fund accounting procedures as may be necessary to assure proper disbursement of and accounting for grants and funds paid to the human development centers in accordance with the requirements of any federal act or law; and (6) The doing of all things and taking of all action to carry out any plans for expenditures of the grants and funds in accordance with and for the accomplishment of the purposes of any federal act or law. (c)(1) This section shall be liberally construed. (2) The enumeration of any object, purpose, power, manner, method, and thing does not exclude like or similar objects, purposes, powers, manners, methods, or things. (3) This section is supplementary to any existing purposes and powers authorized to be accomplished by the human development centers or the board.