North Carolina Administrative Code › Title 04 - COMMERCE › Chapter 19 - RURAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT › Subchapter L - NORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT PROGRAM › Section .1000 - COMPLIANCE REQUIREMENTS › Section 19L .1001 - EQUAL OPPORTUNITY AND NONDISCRIMINATION

Current through Register Vol. 39, No. 2, July 15, 2024
No person shall on the grounds of race, color, national
					 origin, sex, religion, handicap or familial status be excluded from
					 participation in, be denied the benefit of, or be subjected to discrimination
					 under any program or activity funded in whole or in part with funds available
					 under this Subchapter.
(1) Recipients
				  shall meet the requirements of:
(a) The Civil
				  Rights Act of 1964 (P.L.
				  88-352) and specifically Title VI which provides
				  that no person in the United States shall on the grounds of race, color, or
				  national origin, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of,
				  or be otherwise subject to discrimination under any program or activity which
				  receives federal funds;
(b) The
				  Civil Rights Act of 1968 (P.L. 90-284) as amended, and
				  specifically Title VIII which requires recipients to administer all programs
				  and activities relating to housing and community development in a manner to
				  affirmatively further fair housing, and take action to affirmatively further
				  fair housing in the sale and rental of housing, the financing of housing, and
				  the provision of brokerage services;
(c) Section 109 of the Housing and Community
				  Development Act of 1974, as amended (P.L. 93-383) which
				  provides that no person in the United States shall, on the grounds of race,
				  color, national origin, or sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied
				  the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or
				  activity funded in whole or in part with funds provided under this Subchapter.
				  Any prohibition against discrimination on the basis of age under the Age
				  Discrimination Act of 1975, as amended (42 U.S.C. 6101 et. seq.) or with
				  respect to any otherwise qualified handicapped individual as provided in
				  Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended (29 U.S.C.
				  794), shall also apply to any such program or
				  activity;
(d) Executive Order
				  11063, as amended by Executive Order 12259, Leadership and Coordination of Fair
				  Housing in Federal Programs, requiring that programs and activities relating to
				  housing and urban development be administered in a manner to affirmatively
				  further the goals of Title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968;
(e) Executive order 11246, as amended, which
				  provides that no person shall be discriminated against on the basis of race,
				  color, religion, sex, or national origin in all phases of employment during the
				  performance of federal and federally assisted construction contracts, and that
				  affirmative action will be taken in all aspects of personnel negotiations;
				  and
(f) Section 3, of the Housing
				  and Urban Development Act of 1968, (P.L. 90-448) as amended, which
				  requires that to the greatest extent feasible, opportunities for training and
				  employment arising in connection with the planning and carrying out of any
				  project assisted under any federal block grant program be given to lower-income
				  residents of the unit of local government, metropolitan area or nonmetropolitan
				  county in which the project is located and contracts for work in connection
				  with the project be awarded to eligible business concerns which are located in,
				  or owned in substantial part by persons residing in, the same metropolitan area
				  or nonmetropolitan county as of the project.