---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 4721"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "4721"
heading: "Declaration of purpose"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/4721"
units:
  - "Chapter 62 — Intergovernmental Personnel Program"
  - "Subchapter II — Strengthening State and Local Personnel Administration"
---

# §4721. Declaration of purpose


The purpose of this subchapter is to assist [State](/usc/42/4762.md?p=3) and [local governments](/usc/42/4762.md?p=4) to strengthen their staffs by improving their personnel administration.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 91–648, title II, § 201, Jan. 5, 1971, 84 Stat. 1911.)