California Health and Safety Code 34074 – (a) Funds awarded, as a result of a natural disaster, may be …
(a) Funds awarded, as a result of a natural disaster, may be used for any of the following:
(1) Rent vouchers which may be used within or outside the jurisdiction for which they were issued.
Terms Used In California Health and Safety Code 34074
- Department: as used in this part means the Department of Housing and Community Development. See California Health and Safety Code 34050.5
- Eligible recipient: as used in this chapter means an agency of local government or a nonprofit organization which is able to provide or contract with recognized community organizations to provide, emergency or temporary shelter for the homeless. See California Health and Safety Code 34071
- 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.
- Natural disaster: as used in this part has the same meaning as in §. See California Health and Safety Code 34050.5
- State: means the State of California, unless applied to the different parts of the United States. See California Health and Safety Code 23
(2) Temporary expansion of existing shelters.
(3) Creation of temporary shelters, equipment of buildings and sites for use as emergency shelters; and the installation of food preparation and serving facilities, if the department determines that contracting for the provision of meals to the shelter residents, as defined in division (b), is not reasonable and economically feasible.
(4) Operation of shelters.
(5) Administration of emergency shelter programs.
(b) Any eligible recipient awarded funding as a result of a natural disaster shall be required to use the funds to provide emergency shelter to persons who have been rendered homeless as a result of the natural disaster. Recipients shall practice nondiscrimination in the provision of the shelter and shall use the funds to supplement, not supplant, other federal, state, and local programs providing social services, health care, and housing assistance, and to meet any other qualifications the department finds necessary to carry out the intent of the Natural Disaster Emergency Shelter Program.
(Amended by Stats. 1990, Ch. 1067, Sec. 1. Effective September 19, 1990.)