Pennsylvania Act 1968-214 — COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH AND TRAINING ACT

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COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH AND TRAINING ACT
                 Act of Jul. 20, 1968, P.L. 456, No. 214              Cl. 14
                                  AN ACT

     Authorizing the Department of Community Affairs to plan and
        administer a Statewide research and training program for
        community development.

        The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
     hereby enacts as follows:

        Section 1.  Short Title.--This act shall be known and may be
     cited as the "Community Development Research and Training Act."
        Section 2.  Findings and Purposes.--(a) The General Assembly
     finds that the rapid expansion of the urban areas and urban
     population of the Commonwealth have caused severe problems in
     urban and suburban development and that there is a need to:
        (1)  Provide special training in skills needed for economic
     and efficient community development; and
        (2)  Carry out research in new or improved methods of dealing
     with community development problems.
        (b)  Pursuant to these findings, the General Assembly states
     that the purpose of this act is to:
        (1)  Provide for special training to technical and
     professional people who are, or are training to be, employed by
     a governmental or public body which has responsibility for
     community development problems; and
        (2)  Authorize research needed for dealing with community
     development problems.
        Section 3.  Authority of Department of Community Affairs.--
     The Department of Community Affairs, hereinafter referred to as
     the department is hereby authorized to:
        (1)  Organize, initiate, develop, and carry out, programs to
     provide special training in skills needed for economic and
     efficient community development to those technical and
     professional people who are, or are training to be, employed by
     the Commonwealth or by a governmental or public body which has
     responsibilities for community development;
        (2)  Undertake and carry out, and assist local governmental
     or public bodies in undertaking and carrying out, research in
     community development, including but not restricted to, research
     in connection with housing programs and needs, public
     improvement programming, code problems, efficient land use,
     urban transportation, and similar community development
     problems, and studies of the utilization of science and
     technology in the solution of community development problems;
        (3)  Collect, collate, and publish statistics and information
     relating to community development research; and
        (4)  Prepare and maintain a community development research
     and training plan for the State.
        Section 4.  Powers of Department.--The department and any
     local governmental body or public body shall have such powers as
     are necessary to carry out the purposes of this act, including
     but not restricted to the powers to:
        (1)  Apply for and accept grants, contributions, and any
     other form of assistance from the Federal government, or from
     any sources, public or private, to enter into and carry out
     contracts or agreements in connection therewith, and to include
     in any contract for assistance such conditions imposed pursuant
     to Federal laws as it may deem reasonable and appropriate and
     which are not inconsistent with the purposes of this act;
        (2)  Make such expenditures as may be necessary;
        (3)  Make and execute contracts and other instruments
     necessary or convenient to the exercise of its powers under this
     act; and
        (4)  Employ such personnel as may be necessary to carry out
     the purposes of this act.
        Section 5.  Separability; Act Controlling.--Notwithstanding
     any other evidence of legislative intent it is hereby declared
     to be the controlling legislative intent that if any provision
     of this act or the application thereof to any person or
     circumstances is held invalid, the remainder of the act and the
     application of such provision to persons or circumstances other
     than those as to which it is held invalid, shall not be affected
     thereby.
        In so far as the provisions of this act are inconsistent with
     the provisions of any other law, the provisions of this act
     shall be controlling. The powers conferred by this act shall be
     in addition and supplemental to the powers conferred by any
     other law.