[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 28, Volume 1]
[Revised as of July 1, 2006]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 28CFR42.202]

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                    TITLE 28--JUDICIAL ADMINISTRATION
 
                    CHAPTER I--DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
 
PART 42_NONDISCRIMINATION; EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY; POLICIES AND 
PROCEDURES--Table of Contents
 
       Subpart D_Nondiscrimination in Federally Assisted Programs_
 Implementation of Section 815(c)(1) of the Justice System Improvement 
                               Act of 1979
 
Sec.  42.202  Definitions.

    (a) JSIA means the Justice System Improvement Act of 1979, Public 
Law 96-157, 42 U.S.C. 3701, et seq.
    (b) Juvenile Justice Act means title I and II of the Juvenile 
Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974, Public Law 93-415, as 
amended by Public Law 94-503 and Public Law 95-115.
    (c) OJARS or Office means the Office of Justice Assistance, 
Research, and Statistics.
    (d) LEAA means the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration.
    (e) NIJ means the National Institute of Justice.
    (f) BJS means the Bureau of Justice Statistics.
    (g) Employment practices means all terms and conditions of 
employment including but not limited to, all practices relating to the 
screening, recruitment, referral, selection, training, appointment, 
promotion, demotion, and assignment of personnel, and includes 
advertising, hiring, assignments, classification, discipline, layoff and 
termination, upgrading, transfer, leave practices, rate of pay, fringe 
benefits, or other forms of pay or credit for services rendered and use 
of facilities.
    (h) Investigation includes fact-finding efforts and, pursuant to 
Sec.  42.205(c)(3), attempts to secure the voluntary resolution of 
complaints.
    (i) Compliance review means a review of a recipient's selected 
employment practices or delivery of services for compliance with the 
provisions of section 815(c)(1) of the Justice System Improvement Act, 
or this subpart.
    (j) Noncompliance means the failure of a recipient to comply with 
section 815(c)(1) of the Justice System Improvement Act, or this 
subpart.
    (k) Program or activity means the operation of the agency or 
organizational unit of government receiving or substantially benefiting 
from financial assistance awarded, e.g., a police department or 
department of corrections.
    (l) Pattern or practice means any procedure, custom, or act 
affecting or potentially affecting, more than a single individual in a 
single or isolated instance.
    (m) Religion includes all aspects of religious observance and 
practice as well as belief.
    (n) Recipient means any State or local unit of government or agency 
thereof, and any private entity, institution, or organization, to which 
Federal financial assistance is extended directly, or through such 
government or agency, but such term does not include any ultimate 
beneficiary of such assistance.

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    (o) State means any State of the United States, the District of 
Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, 
American Samoa, the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, and the 
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands;
    (p) Unit of local government means any city, county, township, town, 
borough, parish, village or other general purpose political subdivision 
of a State, an Indian tribe which performs law enforcement functions as 
determined by the Secretary of the Interior, or, for the purpose of 
assistance eligiblity, any agency of the District of Columbia government 
or the U.S. Government performing law enforcement functions in and for 
the District of Columbia;
    (q) Combination as applied to States or units of local government 
means any grouping or joining together of such States or units for the 
purpose of preparing, developing, or implementing a criminal justice 
program or project;
    (r) Criminal justice council or CJC means the agency designated by a 
State to perform the functions listed in section 402(b)(1) of the 
Justice System Improvement Act.
    (s) All masculine terms such as he, his, and him should be construed 
to mean their respective feminine counterparts, she, hers, and her, 
where appropriate.

[45 FR 28705, Apr. 30, 1980; 45 FR 54037, Aug. 14, 1980]