Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 90 Part 2.djvu/940

 90 STAT. 2408

PUBLIC LAW 94-503—OCT. 15, 1976

Office of "(c) There is established in the Administration the Office of ComCommunity Anti- munity Anti-Crime Programs (hereinafter in this subsection referred Crime Programs. to as the 'Office'). The Office shall be under the direction of the Deputy Establishment. Administrator for Policy Development. The Office shall— "(1) provide appropriate technical assistance to community and citizens groups to enable such groups to apply for grants to encourage community and citizen participation in crime prevention and other law enforcement and criminal justice activities; "(2) coordinate its activities with other Federal agencies and programs (including the Community Relations Division of the Department of Justice) designed to encourage and assist citizen participation in law enforcement and criminal justice activities; and " (3) provide information on successful programs of citizen and community participation to citizen and community groups.". AMENDMENT TO PART B PURPOSES

42 USC 3721.

SEC. 104. Section 201 of title I of such Act is amended by inserting immediately after "part" the following: "to provide financial and technical aid and assistance". SEGTIOX 2 0 3

42 USC 3723. State planning agency.

Post, p. 2421.

AMENDMENTS

SEC. 105. Section 203 of title I of such Act is amended to read as follows: "SEC. 203. (a)(1) A grant made under this part to a State shall be utilized by the State to establish and maintain a State planning agency. Such agency shall be created or designated by the chief executive of the State or by State law and shall be subject to the jurisdiction of the chief executive. Where such agency is not created or designated by State law, it shall be so created or designated by no later than December 31, 1978, The State planning agency and any regional planning units within the State shall, within their respective jurisdictions, be representative of the law enforcement and criminal justice agencies, including agencies directly related to the prevention and control of juvenile delinquency, units of general local government, and public agencies maintaining programs to reduce and control crime, and shall include representatives of citizens, professional, and community organizations, including organizations directly related to delinquency prevention. "(2) The State planning agency shall include as judicial members, at a minimum, the chief judicial officer or other officer of the court of last resort, the chief judicial administrative officer or other appropriate judicial administrative officer of the State, and a local trial court judicial officer. The local trial court judicial officer and, if the chief judicial officer or chief judicial administrative officer cannot or does not choose to serve, the other judicial members, shall be selected by the chief executive of the State from a list of no less than three nominees for each position submitted by the chief judicial officer of the court of last resort within thirty days after the occurrence of any vacancy in the judicial membership. Additional judicial members of the State planning agency as may be required by the Administration pursuant to section 515(a) of this title shall be appointed by the chief executive of the State from the membership of the judicial planning committee. Any executive committee of a State planning agency shall include in its membership the same proportion of judicial members as the total number of such members bears to the total membership of the State

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