EXCERPTS FROM TITLE 18, UNITED STATES CODE § 1001. Statements or entries generally Whoever, in any matter within the jurisdiction of any department or agency of the United States knowingly and willfully falsifies, conceals or covers up by any trick, scheme, or device a material fact, or makes any false, fictitious or fraudulent statements or representations, or makes or uses any false writing or document knowing the same to contain any false, fictitious or fradulent statement or entry, shall be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned not more than five years, or both. § 1010. Department of Housing and Urban Development and Federal Housing Administration transactions Whoever, for the purpose of obtaining any loan or advance of credit from any person, partnership, association, or corporation with the intent that such loan or advance of credit shall be offered to or accepted by the Department of Housing and Urban Development for insurance, or for the purpose of obtaining any extension or renewal of any loan, advance of credit, or mortgage insured by such department, or the acceptance, release, or substitution of any security on such a loan, advance of credit, or for the purpose of influencing in any way the action of such Department, makes, passes, utters, or publishes any statement, knowing the same to be false, or alters, forges, or counterfeits any instrument, paper, or document, or utters, publishes, or passes as true any instrument, paper, or document, knowing it to have been altered, forged, or counterfeited, or willfully overvalues any security, asset, or income, shall be fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned not more than two years, or both. § 1012. Department of Housing and Urban Development transactions Whoever, with intent to defraud, makes any false entry in any book of the Department of Housing and Urban Development or makes any false report or statement to or for such Department; or Whoever receives any compensation, rebate, or reward, with intent to defraud such Department or with intent unlawfully to defeat its purposes; or Whoever induces or influences such Department to purchase or acquire any property or to enter into any contract and willfully fails to disclose any interest which he has in such property or in the property to which such contract relates, or any special benefit which he expects to receive as a result of such contract Shall be fined nor more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both. INTERNATIONAL HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT EXCERPT FROM HOUSING ACT OF 1957 [Public Law 85-104, 85th Congress; 71 Stat. 294, 304; 12 U.S.C. 1701d-4] EXCHANGE OF DATA SEC. 604. (a) The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development may exchange data relating to housing and urban planning and development with other nations and assemble such data from other nations, through participation in international conferences and other means, where such exchange or assembly is deemed by him to be beneficial in carrying out his responsibilities under the Department of Housing and Urban Development Act or other legislation. In carrying out his responsibilities under this subsection the Secretary may— (1) pay the expenses of participation in activities conducted under authority of this section including, but not limited to, the compensation, travel expenses, and per diem in lieu of subsistence of persons serving in an advisory capacity while away from their homes or regular places of business in connection with attendance at international meetings and conferences or other travel for the purpose of exchange or assembly of data relating to housing and urban planning and development; but such travel expenses shall not exceed those authorized for regular officers and employees traveling in connection with said activities; and (2) accept from international organizations, foreign countries, and private nonprofit foundations, funds, services, facilities, materials, and other donations to be utilized jointly in carrying out activities under this section. (b) International programs and activities carried out by the Secretary under the authority provided in subsection (a) shall be subject to the approval of the Secretary of State for the purpose of assuring that such authority shall be exercised in a manner consistent with the foreign policy of the United States. Approved July 12, 1957. EXCERPT FROM HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT ACT OF 1968 [Public Law 90-448; 82 Stat. 476; 12 U.S.C. 1701u] EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES FOR LOWER INCOME PERSONS IN SEC. 3. In the administration by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development of programs providing direct financial assistance, including community development block grants under title I of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974, in aid of housing, urban planning, devleopment, redevelopment, or renewal, public or community facilities, and new community development, the Secretary shall (1) require, in consultation with the Secretary of Labor, 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 such program be given to lower income persons residing within the unit of local government or the metropolitan area (or nonmetropolitan county), as determined by the Secretary, in which the project is located; and (2) require, in consultation with the Administrator of the Small Business Administration, that to the greatest extent feasible contracts for work to be performed in connection with any such project be awarded to business concerns, including but not limited to individuals or firms doing business in the field of planning, consulting, design, architecture, building construction, rehabilitation, maintainance, or repair, which are located in or owned in substantial part by persons residing in the same metropolitan area (or nonmetropolitan county) as the project. Approved August 1, 1968, 11:52 a.m. EXCERPT FROM HOUSING AND URBAN-RURAL RECOVERY ACT OF 1983 [Public Law 98-181; 97 Stat. 1237; 42 U.S.C. 3542] PUBLIC NOTICE AND COMMENT REGARDING DEPARTMENT SEC. 470. (a) No demonstration program not expressly authorized in law may be commenced by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development until (1) a description of such demonstration program is published in the Federal Register, which description may be included in a notice of funding availability; and (2) there expires a period of sixty calendar days following the date of such publication, during which period the Secretary shall fully consider any public comments submitted with respect to such demonstration program. (b) Nothing in this section may be considered to authorize the conducting of any demonstration program by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. Approved November 30, 1983. PART IX-OTHER RELATED PROVISIONS OF LAW CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET AND IMPOUNDMENT CONTROL ACT OF 1974 [Public Law 93-344; 88 Stat. 297; 2 U.S.C. 621] SHORT TITLES; TABLE OF CONTENTS SECTION 1. (a) SHORT TITLES.-This Act may be cited as the "Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974". Titles I through IX may be cited as the "Congressional Budget Act of 1974" and title X may be cited as the "Impoundment Control Act of 1974". (b) TABLE OF CONTENTS. Sec. 1. Short titles; table of contents. Sec. 2. Declaration of purposes. Sec. 3. Definitions. TITLE I-ESTABLISHMENT OF HOUSE AND SENATE BUDGET COMMITTEES Sec. 101. Budget Committee of the House of Representatives. Sec. 102. Budget Committee of the Senate. TITLE II-CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE Sec. 201. Establishment of Office. Sec. 202. Duties and functions. Sec. 203. Public access to budget data. TITLE III-CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET PROCESS Sec. 300. Timetable. Sec. 301. Adoption of first concurrent resolution. Sec. 302. Matters to be included in joint statement of managers; reports by committees. Sec. 303. First concurrent resolution on the budget must be adopted before legislation providing new budget authority, new spending authority, or changes in revenues or public debt limit is considered. Sec. 304. Permissible revisions of concurrent resolutions on the budget. Sec. 305. Provisions relating to the consideration of concurrent resolutions on the budget. Sec. 306. Legislation dealing with congressional budget must be handled by budget committees. Sec. 307. House committee action on all appropriation bills to be completed before first appropriation bill is reported. Sec. 308. Reports, summaries, and projections of congressional budget actions. Sec. 309. Completion of action on bills providing new budget authority and certain new spending authority. Sec. 310. Second required concurrent resolution and reconciliation process. Sec. 311. New budget authority, new spending authority and revenue legislation must be within appropriate levels. TITLE IV-ADDITIONAL PROVISIONS TO IMPROVE FISCAL PROCEDURES Sec. 401. Bills providing new spending authority. Sec. 402. Reporting of authority legislation. Sec. 403. Analyses by Congressional Budget Office. Sec. 404. Jurisdiction of Appropriations Committees. 36-210 0-84-41 |