SECTIONS 12730 - California Statutes

GOVERNMENT CODE

SECTION 12730

12730. For the purposes of this chapter, the following definitions
apply:
(a) "Community Services Block Grant" refers to the federal funds
and program established by the federal Community Services Block Grant
Program in the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981, as
contained in Public Law 97-35, as that law has been amended from time
to time and as currently codified as Section 9901 et seq. of Title
42 of the United States Code.
(b) "Contract" means the written document incorporating the terms
and conditions under which the department agrees to provide financial
assistance to an eligible entity. Upon its cosigning by authorized
agents of the department and the eligible entity, and subsequent
approval by the Department of General Services pursuant to Section
10295 of the Public Contract Code, a contract shall be deemed to be
valid and enforceable.
(c) "Director" means the Director of Community Services and
Development.
(d) "Delegate agency" or "subcontractor" means a private nonprofit
organization or public agency that operates one or more projects
funded under this chapter pursuant to a contractual agreement with an
eligible entity.
(e) "Department" means the Department of Community Services and
Development established pursuant to Article 8 (commencing with
Section 12085) of Chapter 1.
(f) "Designation" means the formal selection of a proposed
community action agency by the director, as provided in Section
12750.1.
(g) "Eligible entity" means an agency or organization, as defined
in Section 9902 of Title 42 of the United States Code, as amended,
and may include a private nonprofit organization or public agency
that operates one or more projects funded under this chapter pursuant
to a contract with the department.
(h) "Eligible beneficiaries" means all of the following:
(1) All individuals living in households with incomes not to
exceed the official poverty line according to the poverty guidelines
updated periodically in the Federal Register by the United States
Department of Health and Human Services, as defined in Section 9902
of Title 42 of the United States Code, as amended.
(2) All individuals eligible to receive Temporary Assistance for
Needy Families under the state's plan approved under Public Law
104-193, the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity
Reconciliation Act of 1996, and (Chapter 2 (commencing with Section
11200) of Part 3 of Division 9 of the Welfare and Institutions Code)
or assistance under Part A of Title IV of the Social Security Act (42
U.S.C. Sec. 601 et seq.).
(3) Residents of a target area or members of a target group having
a measurably high incidence of poverty and that is the specific
focus of a project financed under this chapter.
(i) "Financial assistance" means money provided by the department
to an eligible entity, pursuant to an approved contract, in order to
enable the eligible entity to accomplish its planned and approved
work program.
(j) "Political subdivision" shall generally be deemed to mean
county government, with the following exceptions:
(1) In any county that, prior to October 1, 1981, had more than
one designated community action agency, each unit of local government
that contained a designated community action agency shall continue
to operate as a "political subdivision" under this chapter.
(2) Any county having fewer than 50,000 population according to
the most recent census available may be deemed by the department to
be part of a larger "political subdivision" comprising two or more
counties if the department determines that to do so would best serve
the purposes of this chapter, and may participate in the designation
process for a multicounty community action agency.
(k) "Secretary" means the Secretary of the United States
Department of Health and Human Services.
(l) "Standards of effectiveness" are the general standards,
derived from the purposes of this chapter and the assurances and
certifications made by the state to the secretary in the state plan,
as further stated in subdivision (g) of Section 12745, and as they
may be more specifically defined in regulation, toward which all
programs and projects funded under this chapter shall be directed and
against which they will be assessed.
(m) "State plan" means the plan required to be submitted to the
secretary to secure California's allotment of Community Services
Block Grant funds, which shall be prepared and reviewed pursuant to
the requirements of this chapter.
(n) "Uncapped area" means any county or portion of a county for
which no community action agency has been designated and recognized.