---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 5319"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "5319"
heading: "Community participation in programs"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/5319"
units:
  - "Chapter 69 — Community Development"
---

# §5319. Community participation in programs


No community shall be barred from participating in any program authorized under this chapter solely on the basis of population, except as expressly authorized by statute.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 93–383, title I, § 120, as added Pub. L. 95–557, title I, § 103(i), Oct. 31, 1978, 92 Stat. 2084.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

This chapter, referred to in text, was in the original “this title”, meaning title I of Pub. L. 93–383, Aug. 22, 1974, 88 Stat. 633, which is classified principally to this chapter. For complete classification of title I to the Code, see Tables.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective Oct. 1, 1978, see section 104 of Pub. L. 95–557, set out as an Effective Date of 1978 Amendment note under section 1709 of Title 12, Banks and Banking.