[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 24, Volume 4]

[Revised as of April 1, 2006]

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

[CITE: 24CFR761.10]



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                 TITLE 24--HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

 

 CHAPTER VII--OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY, DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN 

 DEVELOPMENT (HOUSING ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS AND PUBLIC AND INDIAN HOUSING 

                                PROGRAMS)

 

PART 761_DRUG ELIMINATION PROGRAMS--Table of Contents

 

                            Subpart A_General

 

Sec.  761.10  Definitions.



    The definitions Department, HUD, and Public Housing Agency (PHA) are 

defined in part 5 of this title.

    Controlled substance shall have the meaning provided in section 102 

of the Controlled Substance Act (21 U.S.C. 802).

    Drug intervention means a process to identify assisted housing or 

public housing resident drug users, to assist them in modifying their 

behavior, and/or to refer them to drug treatment to reduce or eliminate 

drug abuse.

    Drug prevention means a process to provide goods and services 

designed to alter factors, including activities, environmental 

influences, risks, and expectations, that lead to drug abuse.

    Drug-related and violent crime shall have the meaning provided in 42 

U.S.C. 11905(2).

    Drug treatment means a program for the residents of an applicant's 

development that strives to end drug abuse and to eliminate its negative 

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through rehabilitation and relapse prevention.

    Federally assisted low-income housing, or assisted housing, shall 

have the meaning provided in 42 U.S.C. 11905(4). However, sections 

221(d)(3) and 221(d)(4) market rate projects with tenant-based 

assistance contracts and section 8 projects with tenant-based assistance 

are not considered federally assisted low-income housing and are not 

eligible for funding under this part 761.

    Governmental jurisdiction means the unit of general local 

government, State, or area of operation of an Indian tribe in which the 

housing development administered by the applicant is located.

    In and around means within, or adjacent to, the physical boundaries 

of a housing development.

    Indian tribe means any tribe, band, pueblo, group, community, or 

nation of Indians, or Alaska Natives.

    Local law enforcement agency means a police department, sheriff's 

office, or other entity of the governmental jurisdiction that has law 

enforcement responsibilities for the community at large, including the 

housing developments owned or administered by the applicant. In Indian 

jurisdictions, this includes tribal prosecutors that assume law 

enforcement functions analogous to a police department or the Bureau of 

Indian Affairs (BIA). More than one law enforcement agency may have 

these responsibilities for the jurisdiction that includes the 

applicant's developments.

    Problems associated with drug-related and violent crime means the 

negative physical, social, educational, and economic impact of drug-

related and violent crime on assisted housing residents or public and 

Indian housing residents, and the deterioration of the assisted housing 

or public and Indian housing environment because of drug-related and 

violent crime.

    Program income means gross income received by a grantee and directly 

generated from the use of program funds. When program income is 

generated by an activity only partially assisted with program funds, the 

income shall be prorated to reflect the percentage of program funds 

used.

    Recipient of assistance under the Native American Housing Assistance 

and Self-Determination Act of 1996 (NAHASDA recipient) shall have the 

same meaning as recipient provided in section 4 of the Native American 

Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act of 1996 (25 U.S.C. 4101 et 

seq.).

    Resident council (RC), for purposes of the Public Housing Program, 

means an incorporated or unincorporated nonprofit organization or 

association that meets each of the following requirements:

    (1) It must be representative of the residents it purports to 

represent;

    (2) It may represent residents in more than one development or in 

all of the developments of a HA, but it must fairly represent residents 

from each development that it represents;

    (3) It must adopt written procedures providing for the election of 

specific officers on a regular basis (but at least once every three 

years); and

    (4) It must have a democratically elected governing board. The 

voting membership of the board must consist of residents of the 

development or developments that the resident organization or resident 

council represents.

    Resident Management Corporation (RMC), for purposes of the Public 

Housing Program, means the entity that proposes to enter into, or that 

enters into, a management contract with a PHA under part 964 of this 

title in accordance with the requirements of that part.

    State means any of the several States of the United States, the 

District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, any territory or 

possession of the United States, or any agency or instrumentality of a 

State exclusive of local governments. The term does not include any 

public or Indian housing agency under the United States Housing Act of 

1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437 note).

    Unit of general local government means any city, county, town, 

municipality, township, parish, village, local public authority 

(including any public or Indian housing agency under the United States 

Housing Act of 1937) or other general purpose political subdivision of a 

State.



[61 FR 13987, Mar. 28, 1996, as amended at 64 FR 49918, Sept. 14, 1999]



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