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[CITE: 42USC10706]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                  CHAPTER 113--STATE JUSTICE INSTITUTE
 
Sec. 10706. Limitations on grants and contracts


(a) Duties of Institute

    With respect to grants made and contracts or cooperative agreements 
entered into under this chapter, the Institute shall--
        (1) ensure that no funds made available to recipients by the 
    Institute shall be used at any time, directly or indirectly, to 
    influence the issuance, amendment, or revocation of any Executive 
    order or similar promulgation by any Federal, State, or local 
    agency, or to undertake to influence the passage or defeat of any 
    legislation or constitutional amendment by the Congress of the 
    United States, or by any State or local legislative body, or any 
    State proposal by initiative petition, or of any referendum, unless 
    a governmental agency, legislative body, a committee, or a member 
    thereof--
            (A) requests personnel of the recipients to testify, draft, 
        or review measures or to make representations to such agency, 
        body, committee, or member; or
            (B) is considering a measure directly affecting the 
        activities under this chapter of the recipient or the Institute; 
        and

        (2) ensure all personnel engaged in grant, cooperative agreement 
    or contract assistance activities supported in whole or part by the 
    Institute refrain, while so engaged, from any partisan political 
    activity.

(b) Use of funds for training programs for advocacy of nonjudicial 
        public policies or encouraging nonjudicial political activities

    No funds made available by the Institute under this chapter, either 
by grant, cooperative agreement, or contract, may be used to support or 
conduct training programs for the purpose of advocating particular 
nonjudicial public policies or encouraging nonjudicial political 
activities.

(c) Authority coextensive with appropriation Acts

    The authorization to enter into cooperative agreements, contracts or 
any other obligation under this chapter shall be effective only to the 
extent, and in such amounts, as are provided in advance in appropriation 
Acts.

(d) Prohibited uses of funds

    To ensure that funds made available under this chapter are used to 
supplement and improve the operation of State courts, rather than to 
support basic court services, funds shall not be used--
        (1) to supplant State or local funds currently supporting a 
    program or activity; or
        (2) to construct court facilities or structures, except to 
    remodel existing facilities to demonstrate new architectural or 
    technological techniques, or to provide temporary facilities for new 
    personnel or for personnel involved in a demonstration or 
    experimental program.

(Pub. L. 98-620, title II, Sec. 207, Nov. 8, 1984, 98 Stat. 3342; Pub. 
L. 100-702, title VI, Sec. 605, Nov. 19, 1988, 102 Stat. 4653.)

                       References in Text

    This chapter, referred to in text, was in the original ``this 
title'', except in subsec. (d) where it was in the original ``this 
Act'', meaning title II of Pub. L. 98-620, Nov. 8, 1984, 98 Stat. 336, 
known as the State Justice Institute Act of 1984, which enacted this 
chapter and amended section 620 of Title 28, Judiciary and Judicial 
Procedure. For complete classification of title II to the Code, see 
Short Title note set out under section 17101 of this title and Tables.


                               Amendments

    1988--Subsec. (a)(3). Pub. L. 100-702 struck out par. (3) which read 
as follows: ``ensure that each recipient that files with the Institute a 
timely application for refunding is provided interim funding necessary 
to maintain its current level of activities until--
        ``(A) the application for refunding has been approved and funds 
    pursuant thereto received; or
        ``(B) the application for refunding has been finally denied in 
    accordance with section 10708 of this title.''

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 10712 of this title.
