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42 U.S.C. § 2996j — Legal Services Corporation

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42 U.S.C. § 2996j — Legal Services Corporation

**(a) Establishment; purpose** There is established in the District of Columbia a private nonmembership nonprofit corporation, which shall be known as the Legal Services Corporation, for the purpose of providing financial support for legal assistance in noncriminal proceedings or matters to persons financially unable to afford legal assistance. **(b) Principal office; agent for service of process** The Corporation shall maintain its principal office in the District of Columbia and shall maintain therein a designated agent to accept service of process for the Corporation. Notice to or service upon the agent shall be deemed notice to or service upon the Corporation. **(c) Status of Corporation under tax laws** The Corporation, and any legal assistance program assisted by the Corporation, shall be eligible to be treated as an organization described in [section 170(c)(2)(B) of title 26](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title26-section170/c/2/B&num=0&edition=prelim) and as an organization described in [section 501(c)(3) of title 26](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title26-section501/c/3&num=0&edition=prelim) which is exempt from taxation under [section 501(a) of title 26](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title26-section501/a&num=0&edition=prelim). If such treatments are conferred in accordance with the provisions of title 26, the Corporation, and legal assistance programs assisted by the Corporation, shall be subject to all provisions of title 26 relevant to the conduct of organizations exempt from taxation.

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42 U.S.C. § 2701 — Powers, duties, and limitations

**(a) Powers of nonprofit corporation; additional powers** To the extent consistent with the provisions of this subchapter, the Corporation shall exercise the powers conferred upon a nonprofit corporation by the District of Columbia Nonprofit Corporation Act (except for section 1005(o) of title 29 of the District of Columbia Code). In addition, the Corporation is authorized— (1) (A) to provide financial assistance to qualified programs furnishing legal assistance to eligible clients, and to make grants to and contracts with— (i) individuals, partnerships, firms, corporations, and nonprofit organizations, and (ii) State and local governments (only upon application by an appropriate State or local agency or institution and upon a special determination by the Board that the arrangements to be made by such agency or institution will provide services which will not be provided adequately through non-governmental arrangements), for the purpose of providing legal assistance to eligible clients under this subchapter, and (B) to make such other grants and contracts as are necessary to carry out the purposes and provisions of this subchapter; (2) to accept in the name of the Corporation, and employ or dispose of in furtherance of the purposes of this subchapter, any money or property, real, personal, or mixed, tangible or intangible, received by gift, devise, bequest, or otherwise; and (3) to undertake directly, or by grant or contract, the following activities relating to the delivery of legal assistance— (A) research, except that broad general legal or policy research unrelated to representation of eligible clients may not be undertaken by grant or contract, (B) training and technical assistance, and (C) to serve as a clearinghouse for information.

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42 U.S.C. § 2702 — Grants and contracts

**(a) Requisites** With respect to grants or contracts in connection with the provision of legal assistance to eligible clients under this subchapter, the Corporation shall— (1) insure the maintenance of the highest quality of service and professional standards, the preservation of attorney-client relationships, and the protection of the integrity of the adversary process from any impairment in furnishing legal assistance to eligible clients; (2) (A) establish, in consultation with the Director of the Office of Management and Budget and with the Governors of the several States, maximum income levels (taking into account family size, urban and rural differences, and substantial cost-of-living variations) for individuals eligible for legal assistance under this subchapter; (B) establish guidelines to insure that eligibility of clients will be determined by recipients on the basis of factors which include— (i) the liquid assets and income level of the client, (ii) the fixed debts, medical expenses, and other factors which affect the client’s ability to pay, (iii) the cost of living in the locality, and (iv) such other factors as relate to financial inability to afford legal assistance, which may include evidence of a prior determination that such individual’s lack of income results from refusal or unwillingness, without good cause, to seek or accept an employment situation; and (C) insure that (i) recipients, consistent with goals established by the Corporation, adopt procedures for determining and implementing priorities for the provision of such assistance, taking into account the relative needs of eligible clients for such assistance (including such outreach, training, and support services as may be necessary), including particularly the n

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42 U.S.C. § 2996j — Special limitations

Page 5665 TITLE 42—THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE § 2996k may be necessary for fiscal year 1977. There are authorized to be appropriated for the purpose of carrying out the activities of the Corporation $205,000,000 for the fiscal year 1978, and such sums as may be necessary for each of the two succeeding fiscal years. The first appropriation may be made available to the Corporation at any time after six or more members of the Board have been appointed and qualified. Appro- priations for that purpose shall be made for not more than two fiscal years, and shall be paid to the Corporation in annual installments at the beginning of each fiscal year in such amounts as may be specified in Acts of Congress making ap- propriations. (b) Availability of funds Funds appropriated pursuant to this section shall remain available until expended. (c) Non-Federal funds Non-Federal funds received by the Corpora- tion, and funds received by any recipient from a source other than the Corporation, shall be ac- counted for and reported as receipts and dis- bursements separate and distinct from Federal funds; but any funds so received for the provi- sion of legal assistance shall not be expended by recipients for any purpose prohibited by this subchapter, except that this provision shall not be construed to prevent recipients from receiv- ing other public funds or tribal funds (including foundation funds benefiting Indians or Indian tribes) and expending them in accordance with the purposes for which they are provided, or to prevent contracting or making other arrange- ments with private attorneys, private law firms, or other State or local entities of attorneys, or with legal aid societies having separate public defender programs, for the provision of legal as- s

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