Legal Services Corporation--1982: Oversight Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Courts, Civil Liberties, and the Administration of Justice of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Ninety-seventh Congress, Second Session, on Legal Services Corporation--1982, December 14, 1982

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Page 66 - Corporation, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of A merica in Congress assembled. That this Act may be cited as the "Legal Services Corporation Act of 1974.
Page 72 - The Corporation shall have no power to issue any shares of stock, or to declare or pay any dividends. "(2) No part of the income or assets of the Corporation shall inure to the benefit of any director, officer, employee, or any other individual except as salary or reasonable compensation for services.
Page 70 - Act, or of any title thereof, any money or property, real, personal, or mixed, tangible or intangible, received by gift, devise, bequest, or otherwise...
Page 72 - ... (5) No class action suit, class action appeal, or amicus curiae class action may be undertaken, directly or through others, by a staff attorney, except with the express approval of a project director of a recipient in accordance with policies established by the governing body of such recipient.
Page 77 - The accounts of the Corporation shall be audited annually in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards by independent certified public accountants or independent licensed public accountants certified or licensed by a regulatory authority of a State or other political subdivision of the United States.
Page 78 - Corporation and necessary to facilitate the audits shall be made available to the person or persons conducting the audits; and full facilities for verifying transactions with the balances or securities held by depositories, fiscal agents and custodians shall be afforded to such person or persons.
Page 69 - No member of the Board may participate in any decision, action, or recommendation with respect to any matter which directly benefits such member or pertains specifically to any firm or organization with which such member is then associated or has been associated within a period of two years. For the purposes of this paragraph, (1) a member of the Board shall be deemed "associated...
Page 75 - ... (5) to make grants to or enter into contracts with any private law firm which expends SO percent or more of its resources and time litigating issues in the broad interests of a majority of the public...
Page 71 - ... (B) no such employee shall, at any time, engage in, or encourage others to engage in. any of the following activities...
Page 102 - The vice president shall perform such other duties as from time to time may be assigned to him by the president or by the board of directors.

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