---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 4741"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "4741"
heading: "Declaration of purpose"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/4741"
units:
  - "Chapter 62 — Intergovernmental Personnel Program"
  - "Subchapter III — Training and Developing State and Local Employees"
---

# §4741. Declaration of purpose


The purpose of this subchapter is to strengthen the training and development of [State](/usc/42/4762.md?p=3) and [local government](/usc/42/4762.md?p=4) employees and officials, particularly in professional, administrative, and technical fields.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 91–648, title III, § 301, Jan. 5, 1971, 84 Stat. 1916.)