20 U.S.C. § 1687 : US Code - Section 1687: Interpretation of "program or activity"

Search 20 U.S.C. § 1687 : US Code - Section 1687: Interpretation of "program or activity"

For the purposes of this chapter, the term "program or activity"
and "program" mean all of the operations of -
(1)(A) a department, agency, special purpose district, or other
instrumentality of a State or of a local government; or
(B) the entity of such State or local government that
distributes such assistance and each such department or agency
(and each other State or local government entity) to which the
assistance is extended, in the case of assistance to a State or
local government;
(2)(A) a college, university, or other postsecondary
institution, or a public system of higher education; or
(B) a local educational agency (as defined in section 7801 of
this title), system of vocational education, or other school
system;
(3)(A) an entire corporation, partnership, or other private
organization, or an entire sole proprietorship -
(i) if assistance is extended to such corporation,
partnership, private organization, or sole proprietorship as a
whole; or
(ii) which is principally engaged in the business of
providing education, health care, housing, social services, or
parks and recreation; or
(B) the entire plant or other comparable, geographically
separate facility to which Federal financial assistance is
extended, in the case of any other corporation, partnership,
private organization, or sole proprietorship; or
(4) any other entity which is established by two or more of the
entities described in paragraph (1), (2), or (3);
any part of which is extended Federal financial assistance, except
that such term does not include any operation of an entity which is
controlled by a religious organization if the application of
section 1681 of this title to such operation would not be
consistent with the religious tenets of such organization.
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