(a) The department shall, upon appropriation pursuant to Section 2010, make awards to public or private nonprofit agencies or joint ventures, or both, for the purpose of acquiring, renovating, constructing, and purchasing equipment for youth centers or youth shelters. This chapter shall not apply to institutions of a type under the jurisdiction of the department prior to the operative date of this act adding this section.

(b) If a public or private nonprofit agency or joint venture, or both, is granted an award pursuant to subdivision (a) for a youth shelter which will provide services for both runaway youths and abused and neglected children, the department shall credit the allocation of bond proceeds awarded to reflect the proportion of funds to be used by the recipient for services for runaway youths and the proportion of funds to be used for services for abused or neglected children.

Terms Used In California Welfare and Institutions Code 2011

  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.

(Amended by Stats. 1989, Ch. 1130, Sec. 2. Effective September 30, 1989.)

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