§ 20-48-416 - Designation as state agency for carrying out federal mental retardation acts.
20-48-416. Designation as state agency for carrying out federal mental retardation acts.
(a) The Board of Developmental Disabilities Services is designated as the single state agency for carrying out the purposes of any act of Congress pertaining to mental retardation.
(b) The board is authorized to take all action of every nature whatever necessary or desirable in complying with the requirements of any federal act and accomplishing the purposes thereof, including, without limitation:
(1) The receiving, handling, and disbursing of grants and funds appropriated by any federal act;
(2) The making of provisions to assure full consideration of all aspects of services essential to planning for comprehensive state and community action to combat mental retardation, including services in the fields of education, employment, rehabilitation, welfare, health, and the law, and services provided through community programs for and institutions for the mentally retarded;
(3) The preparing and submitting of plans for expenditure of such grants and funds and providing the assurance required by any federal act as to carrying out the purposes of any federal act;
(4) The preparing and submitting of reports of the activities of the center in carrying out the purposes of any federal act in such form and containing such information as may be required by any federal act and keeping such records and affording access thereto necessary to assure correctness and verification of such reports as may be required by any federal act;
(5) The providing for such fiscal control and fund accounting procedures as may be necessary to assure proper disbursement of and accounting for grants and funds paid to the center in accordance with the requirements of any federal act; and
(6) The doing of all things and taking of all action to carry out any plans for expenditures of the grants and funds in accordance with and for the accomplishment of the purposes of any federal act.
(c) (1) This section shall be liberally construed.
(2) The enumeration of any object, purpose, power, manner, method, and thing shall not be deemed to exclude like or similar objects, purposes, powers, manners, methods, or things.
(3) This section shall be construed as being supplementary to any existing purposes and powers authorized to be accomplished by the human development centers or the board.