[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 42, Volume 1]

[Revised as of October 1, 2005]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 42CFR59.2]



[Page 306]

 

                         TITLE 42--PUBLIC HEALTH

 

    CHAPTER I--PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN 

                                SERVICES

 

PART 59_GRANTS FOR FAMILY PLANNING SERVICES--Table of Contents

 

          Subpart A_Project Grants for Family Planning Services

 

Sec. 59.2  Definitions.



    As used in this subpart:

    Act means the Public Health Service Act, as amended.

    Family means a social unit composed of one person, or two or more 

persons living together, as a household.

    Low income family means a family whose total annual income does not 

exceed 100 percent of the most recent Poverty Guidelines issued pursuant 

to 42 U.S.C. 9902(2). ``Low-income family'' also includes members of 

families whose annual family income exceeds this amount, but who, as 

determined by the project director, are unable, for good reasons, to pay 

for family planning services. For example, unemancipated minors who wish 

to receive services on a confidential basis must be considered on the 

basis of their own resources.

    Nonprofit, as applied to any private agency, institution, or 

organization, means that no part of the entity's net earnings benefit, 

or may lawfully benefit, any private shareholder or individual.

    Secretary means the Secretary of Health and Human Services and any 

other officer or employee of the Department of Health and Human Services 

to whom the authority involved has been delegated.

    State includes, in addition to the several States, the District of 

Columbia, Guam, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Northern Mariana 

Islands, the U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa, the U.S. Outlying 

Islands (Midway, Wake, et al.), the Marshall Islands, the Federated 

State of Micronesia and the Republic of Palau.



[65 FR 41278, July 3, 2000; 65 FR 49057, Aug. 10, 2000]