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 PUBLIC LAW 101-162—NOV. 21, 1989 103 STAT. 1033 particular application, claim, or case, which directly involves the client's legal rights or responsibilities; (3) to pay for any personal service, advertisement, telegram, telephone communication, letter, printed or written matter, or any other device intended or designed to influence any Member of Congress or any other Federal, State, or local elected official— (A) to favor or oppose any referendum, initiative, con- stitutional amendment, or any similar procedure of the Congress, any State legislature, any local council or any similar governing body acting in a legislative capacity, (B) to favor or oppose an authorization or appropriation directly affecting the authority, function, or funding of the recipient or the Corporation, or (C) to influence the conduct of oversight proceedings of the recipient or the Corporation; (4) to pay for any personal service, advertisement, telegram, telephone communication, letter, printed or written matter, or any other device intended or designed to influence any Member of Congress or any other Federal, State, or local elected official to favor or oppose any Act, bill, resolution, or similar legisla- tion, except that this proviso shall not preclude funds from being used to provide communication directly to a Federal, where the purpose of such communication is to bring the matter to the official's attention if— (A) the project director of a recipient has expressly ap- proved in writing the undertaking of such communication to be made on behalf of a client or class of clients in accordance with policy established by the governing body of the recipient; and (B) the project director of a recipient has determined prior to the undertaking of such communication, that— (i) the client and each client is in need of relief which can be provided by the legislative body involved; (ii) appropriate judicial and administrative relief have been exhausted; and (iii) documentation has been secured from each eli- gible client that includes a statement of the specific legal interests of the client, except that such commu- nication may not be the result of participation in a coordinated effort to provide such communications under this proviso; and (C) the project director of a recipient maintains docu- mentation of the expense and time spent under this proviso as part of the records of the recipient; or (D) the project director of a recipient has approved the submission of a communication to a legislator requesting introduction of a private relief bill: except that nothing in this proviso shall prohibit communications made in response to a request from a Federal, State, or local official: Provided further, That none of the funds appropriated in this Act made available by the Legal Services Corporation may be used to pay for any administrative or related costs associated with an activity prohibited in clause (1), (2), (3), or (4) of the previous proviso: Provided further, That none of the funds appropriated under this Act for the Legal Services Corporation will be expended to provide Communications and tele- communications. State and local governments.
 * State, or local elected official on a specific and distinct matter

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