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42 U.S.C. § 5309 — Nondiscrimination in programs and activities
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**(a) Prohibited conduct** No person in the United States shall on the ground of race, color, national origin, religion, or sex be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity funded in whole or in part with funds made available under this chapter. Any prohibition against discrimination on the basis of age under the Age Discrimination Act of 1975 [[42 U.S.C. 6101](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section6101&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.] or with respect to an otherwise qualified handicapped individual as provided in [section 794 of title 29](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title29-section794&num=0&edition=prelim) shall also apply to any such program or activity.
**(b) Compliance procedures available to Secretary** Whenever the Secretary determines that a State or unit of general local government which is a recipient of assistance under this chapter has failed to comply with subsection (a) or (e) or an applicable regulation, he shall notify the Governor of such State or the chief executive officer of such unit of local government of the noncompliance and shall request the Governor or the chief executive officer to secure compliance. If within a reasonable period of time, not to exceed sixty days, the Governor or the chief executive officer fails or refuses to secure compliance, the Secretary is authorized to (1) refer the matter to the Attorney General with a recommendation that an appropriate civil action be instituted; (2) exercise the powers and functions provided by title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 ([42 U.S.C. 2000d](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section2000d&num=0&edition=preli
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**(a) Prohibited conduct** No person in the United States shall on the ground of race, color, national origin, religion, or sex be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity funded in whole or in part with funds made available under this chapter. Any prohibition against discrimination on the basis of age under the Age Discrimination Act of 1975 [[42 U.S.C. 6101](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section6101&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.] or with respect to an otherwise qualified handicapped individual as provided in [section 794 of title 29](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title29-section794&num=0&edition=prelim) shall also apply to any such program or activity.
**(b) Compliance procedures available to Secretary** Whenever the Secretary determines that a State or unit of general local government which is a recipient of assistance under this chapter has failed to comply with subsection (a) or (e) or an applicable regulation, he shall notify the Governor of such State or the chief executive officer of such unit of local government of the noncompliance and shall request the Governor or the chief executive officer to secure compliance. If within a reasonable period of time, not to exceed sixty days, the Governor or the chief executive officer fails or refuses to secure compliance, the Secretary is authorized to (1) refer the matter to the Attorney General with a recommendation that an appropriate civil action be instituted; (2) exercise the powers and functions provided by title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 ([42 U.S.C. 2000d](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section2000d&num=0&edition=prelim)); (3) exercise the powers and functions provided for in [section 5311(a) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section5311/a&num=0&edition=prelim); or (4) take such other action as may be provided by law.
**(c) Civil action by Attorney General** When a matter is referred to the Attorney General pursuant to subsection (b), or whenever he has reason to believe that a State government or unit of general local government is engaged in a pattern or practice in violation of the provisions of this section, the Attorney General may bring a civil action in any appropriate United States district court for such relief as may be appropriate, including injunctive relief.
**(d) Waiver of race discrimination prohibitions regarding assistance to Hawaiian Home Lands** The provisions of this section and [section 5304(b)(2) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section5304/b/2&num=0&edition=prelim) which relate to discrimination on the basis of race shall not apply to the provision of assistance by grantees under this chapter to the Hawaiian Home Lands.
**(e) Equal access**
(1) **Definition** — In this subsection, the term “youth organization” means an organization described under part B of subtitle II of title 36 that is intended to serve individuals under the age of 21 years.
(2) **In general** — No State or unit of general local government that has a designated open forum, limited public forum, or nonpublic forum and that is a recipient of assistance under this chapter shall deny equal access or a fair opportunity to meet to, or discriminate against, any youth organization, including the Boy Scouts of America or any group officially affiliated with the Boy Scouts of America, that wishes to conduct a meeting or otherwise participate in that designated open forum, limited public forum, or nonpublic forum.
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**(a)** The Congress finds that—
(1) disparate State laws under which the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development forecloses multifamily mortgages burden the programs administered by the Secretary pursuant to these authorities, and cause detriment to the residents of the affected projects and the community generally;
(2) long periods to complete the foreclosure of these mortgages under certain State laws lead to deterioration in the condition of the properties involved; necessitate substantial Federal management and holding expenditures; increase the risk of vandalism, fire loss, depreciation, damage, and waste with respect to the properties; and adversely affect the residents of the projects and the neighborhoods in which the properties are located;
(3) these conditions seriously impair the Secretary’s ability to protect the Federal financial interest in the affected properties and frustrate attainment of the objectives of the underlying Federal program authorities, as well as the national housing goal of “a decent home and a suitable living environment for every American family”;
(4) application of State redemption periods to these mortgages following their foreclosure would impair the salability of the properties involved and discourage their rehabilitation and improvement, thereby compounding the problems referred to in clause (3);
(5) the availability of a uniform and more expeditious procedure for the foreclosure of these mortgages by the Secretary and continuation of the practice of not applying postsale redemption periods to such mortgages will tend to ameliorate these conditions; and
(6) providing the Secretary with a nonjudicial foreclosure procedure will reduce unnecessary litigation by removing many foreclosures from the courts where they contribute
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It is the purpose of this chapter to prohibit discrimination on the basis of age in programs or activities receiving Federal financial assistance.
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**(a) Establishment** Subject to the availability of appropriations, the Secretary shall establish in the Department of Health and Human Services a Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research Advisory Council (referred to in this section as the “Council”) composed of not less than 12 members appointed by the Secretary.
**(b) Duties** The Council shall advise the Director with respect to research priorities and the development and revision of the 5-year plan required by [section 762(h) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title29-section762/h&num=0&edition=prelim).
**(c) Qualifications** Members of the Council shall be generally representative of the community of disability, independent living, and rehabilitation professionals, the community of disability, independent living, and rehabilitation researchers, the directors of independent living centers and community rehabilitation programs, the business community (including a representative of the small business community) that has experience with the system of vocational rehabilitation services and independent living services carried out under this chapter and with hiring individuals with disabilities, the community of stakeholders involved in assistive technology, the community of covered school professionals, and the community of individuals with disabilities, and the individuals’ representatives. At least one-half of the members shall be individuals with disabilities or the individuals’ representatives.
**(d) Terms of appointment**
(1) **Length of term** — Each member of the Council shall serve for a term of up to 3 years, determined by the Secretary, except that—
(A) a member appointed to fill a vacancy occurring prior to the expiration of the term for whic
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No person in the United States shall, on the ground of race, color, or national origin, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.
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**(a) Equal access** All persons shall be entitled to the full and equal enjoyment of the goods, services, facilities, privileges, advantages, and accommodations of any place of public accommodation, as defined in this section, without discrimination or segregation on the ground of race, color, religion, or national origin.
**(b) Establishments affecting interstate commerce or supported in their activities by State action as places of public accommodation; lodgings; facilities principally engaged in selling food for consumption on the premises; gasoline stations; places of exhibition or entertainment; other covered establishments** Each of the following establishments which serves the public is a place of public accommodation within the meaning of this subchapter if its operations affect commerce, or if discrimination or segregation by it is supported by State action:
(1) any inn, hotel, motel, or other establishment which provides lodging to transient guests, other than an establishment located within a building which contains not more than five rooms for rent or hire and which is actually occupied by the proprietor of such establishment as his residence;
(2) any restaurant, cafeteria, lunchroom, lunch counter, soda fountain, or other facility principally engaged in selling food for consumption on the premises, including, but not limited to, any such facility located on the premises of any retail establishment; or any gasoline station;
(3) any motion picture house, theater, concert hall, sports arena, stadium or other place of exhibition or entertainment; and
(4) any establishment (A)(i) which is physically located within the premises of any establishment otherwise covered by this subsection, or (ii) within the premises of which is physically located any such cove
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**(a) In General.—** The following definitions apply in this title:
(1) The term “United States”, in a geographic sense, means the States and the District of Columbia.
(2) Repealed. Pub. L. 109–163, div. A, title X, § 1057(a)(1), Jan. 6, 2006, 119 Stat. 3440.]
(3) The term “possessions” includes the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Guano Islands, so long as they remain possessions, but does not include any Commonwealth.
(4) The term “armed forces” means the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Space Force, and Coast Guard.
(5) The term “uniformed services” means—
(A) the armed forces;
(B) the commissioned corps of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; and
(C) the commissioned corps of the Public Health Service.
(6) The term “department”, when used with respect to a military department, means the executive part of the department and all field headquarters, forces, reserve components, installations, activities, and functions under the control or supervision of the Secretary of the department. When used with respect to the Department of Defense, such term means the executive part of the department, including the executive parts of the military departments, and all field headquarters, forces, reserve components, installations, activities, and functions under the control or supervision of the Secretary of Defense, including those of the military departments.
(7) The term “executive part of the department” means the executive part of the Department of Defense, Department of the Army, Department of the Navy, or Department of the Air Force, as the case may be, at the seat of government.
(8) The term “military departments” means the Department of the Army, the Department of the Navy, and the Department of the Air Force.
(9) The term
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**(a) Authority and responsibility** The authority and responsibility for administering this Act shall be in the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
**(b) Assistant Secretary** The Department of Housing and Urban Development shall be provided an additional Assistant Secretary.
**(c) Delegation of authority; appointment of administrative law judges; location of conciliation meetings; administrative review** The Secretary may delegate any of his functions, duties, and powers to employees of the Department of Housing and Urban Development or to boards of such employees, including functions, duties, and powers with respect to investigating, conciliating, hearing, determining, ordering, certifying, reporting, or otherwise acting as to any work, business, or matter under this subchapter. The person to whom such delegations are made with respect to hearing functions, duties, and powers shall be appointed and shall serve in the Department of Housing and Urban Development in compliance with sections 3105, 3344, 5372, and 7521 of title 5. Insofar as possible, conciliation meetings shall be held in the cities or other localities where the discriminatory housing practices allegedly occurred. The Secretary shall by rule prescribe such rights of appeal from the decisions of his administrative law judges to other administrative law judges or to other officers in the Department, to boards of officers or to himself, as shall be appropriate and in accordance with law.
**(d) Cooperation of Secretary and executive departments and agencies in administration of housing and urban development programs and activities to further fair housing purposes** All executive departments and agencies shall administer their programs and activities relating to housing and urban development (inclu
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**(a) Set-aside**
(1) **In general** — For each fiscal year (except as otherwise provided in this paragraph), of the total amount provided in appropriation Acts under [section 5303 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section5303&num=0&edition=prelim) for the fiscal year, $60,000,000 shall be set aside for grants under subsection (b) for such year for the following purposes:
(A) $6,500,000 shall be available for grants under subsection (b)(3) 11 See References in Text note below.;
(B) $6,000,000 shall be available for grants under subsection (b)(5) 1;
(C) $6,000,000 shall be available in fiscal year 1993 for grants under subsection (b)(7) 1;
(D) $3,000,000 shall be available for grants under subsection (c);
(E) such sums as may be necessary shall be available for grants under paragraphs (2), (4), and (6) 1 of subsection (b);
(F) $2,000,000 shall be available in fiscal year 1993 for a grant to the City of Bridgeport, Connecticut, subject to the approval of sufficient amounts in an appropriation Act and to binding commitments made by the City of Bridgeport and the State of Connecticut that the city and State, respectively, will supplement such amount with $2,000,000 of additional funds; and
(G) $7,500,000 shall be available to carry out the Community Outreach Partnership Act of 1992.
(2) **Treatment of grants** — Any grants made under this section shall be in addition to any other grants that may be made under this chapter to the same entities for the same purposes.
**(b) Permissible uses of funds** From amounts set aside under subsection (a), the Secretary is authorized to make grants—
(1) to States and units of general local government for the purpose of allocating amounts to any such State or unit
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TITLE 42—THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
§ 2000c–7
§ 2000c–7. Liability of United States for costs
In any action or proceeding under this sub-
chapter the United States shall be liable for
costs the same as a private person.
(Pub. L. 88–352, title IV, § 408, July 2, 1964, 78
Stat. 249.)
§ 2000c–8. Personal suits for relief against dis-
crimination in public education
Nothing in this subchapter shall affect ad-
versely the right of any person to sue for or ob-
tain relief in any court against discrimination
in public education.
(Pub. L. 88–352, title IV, § 409, July 2, 1964, 78
Stat. 249.)
§ 2000c–9. Classification and assignment
Nothing in this subchapter shall prohibit clas-
sification and assignment for reasons other than
race, color, religion, sex or national origin.
(Pub. L. 88–352, title IV, § 410, July 2, 1964, 78
Stat. 249; Pub. L. 92–318, title IX, § 906(a), June
23, 1972, 86 Stat. 375.)
Editorial Notes
AMENDMENTS
1972—Pub. L. 92–318 inserted ‘‘sex’’ after ‘‘religion,’’.
SUBCHAPTER V—FEDERALLY ASSISTED
PROGRAMS
§ 2000d. Prohibition against exclusion from par-
ticipation in, denial of benefits of, and dis-
crimination under federally assisted pro-
grams on ground of race, color, or national
origin
No person in the United States shall, on the
ground of race, color, or national origin, be ex-
cluded from participation in, be denied the bene-
fits of, or be subjected to discrimination under
any program or activity receiving Federal finan-
cial assistance.
(Pub. L. 88–352, title VI, § 601, July 2, 1964, 78
Stat. 252.)
Executive Documents
COORDINATION OF IMPLEMENTATION AND ENFORCEMENT
OF PROVISIONS
For provisions relating to the coordination of imple-
mentation and enforcement of the provisions of this
subchapter by the Attorney Ge
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TITLE 42—THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
§ 5309
paid by the United States pursuant to any guarantee;
and pledge of repayment of proceeds of grants in event
of failure of repayment as hereinbefore provided.
Subsecs. (c) to (e). Pub. L. 95–128, § 108(3), added sub-
secs. (c) to (e). Former subsecs. (c) to (e) redesignated
(f) to (h).
Subsecs. (f), (g). Pub. L. 95–128, § 108(2), redesignated
former subsecs. (c) and (d) as (f) and (g).
Subsec. (h). Pub. L. 95–128, § 108(2), (4), (5), redesig-
nated former subsec. (e) as (h) and substituted in first
sentence ‘‘subsection (j)’’ for ‘‘subsection (g)’’; sub-
stituted in first sentence ‘‘shall’’ for ‘‘may, at the op-
tion of the issuing unit of general local government or
designated agency,’’; and in second sentence ‘‘The Sec-
retary is authorized to make, and to contract to make,
grants, in such amounts as may be approved in appro-
priations Acts,’’ for ‘‘In the event that taxable obliga-
tions are issued and guaranteed, the Secretary is au-
thorized to make, and to contract to make, grants’’.
Subsec. (j). Pub. L. 95–128, § 108(2), (6), redesignated
former subsec. (g) as (j) and substituted ‘‘is guaranteed
pursuant to’’ for ‘‘such unit or agency has elected to
issue as a taxable obligation pursuant to subsection (e)
of’’.
Subsec. (k). Pub. L. 95–128, § 108(7), added subsec. (k).
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
EFFECTIVE DATE OF 1996 AMENDMENT
Amendment by Pub. L. 104–120 to be construed to
have become effective Oct. 1, 1995, see section 13(a) of
Pub. L. 104–120, set out as an Effective and Termination
Dates of 1996 Amendments note under section 1437d of
this title.
EFFECTIVE DATE OF 1994 AMENDMENT
Amendment by Pub. L. 103–233 applicable with re-
spect to any amounts made available to car
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