§29-15-6 State agency for federal mental retardation program.
§29-15-6. State agency for federal mental retardation program.
The commission is hereby designated and established as the sole state agency for receiving appropriations under and carrying out the purposes of section five of Public Law 88-156, eighty-eighth Congress approved October twenty-four, nineteen hundred and sixty-three, and any law amending, revising, supplementing or superseding section five of said Public Law 88-156.
The commission shall constitute the designated state agency for handling all programs of the federal government relating to mental retardation requiring action within the state which are not the specific responsibility of another state agency under the provisions of federal law, rules or regulations, or which have not been specifically entrusted to another state agency by the Legislature.