42 U.S.C. § 2000g–1 — Functions of Service
submitted 62 years ago by Pub. L. 88-352 to r/title-42-THE-PUBLIC-HEALTH-AND-WELFARE · 115 words · no verdicts yet
The Service helps communities and their residents resolve disputes involving discriminatory practices based on race, color, or national origin. It may offer help on its own or when asked by an official or other interested person.
The Service’s function is to help communities and people in them resolve disputes, disagreements, or difficulties about discriminatory practices* based on race, color, or national origin that impair community members’ rights under United States law or the Constitution, or affect or may affect interstate commerce. When it judges that these disputes threaten peaceful community relations, the Service may offer help on its own initiative or at the request of an appropriate State* or local official or other interested person.
It shall be the function of the Service to provide assistance to communities and persons therein in resolving disputes, disagreements, or difficulties relating to discriminatory practices* based on race, color, or national origin which impair the rights of persons in such communities under the Constitution or laws of the United States or which affect or may affect interstate commerce. The Service may offer its services in cases of such disputes, disagreements, or difficulties whenever, in its judgment, peaceful relations among the citizens of the community involved are threatened thereby, and it may offer its services either upon its own motion or upon the request of an appropriate State* or local official or other interested person.
Source credit: (Pub. L. 88–352, title X, § 1002, July 2, 1964, 78 Stat. 267.)
- 1964Enacted · Pub. L. 88-352 · 78 Stat. 267
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