---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 9809"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "9809"
heading: "Statement of purpose"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/9809"
units:
  - "Chapter 105 — Community Services Programs"
  - "Subchapter I — Community Economic Development"
  - "Part B — Special Rural Programs"
---

# §9809. Statement of purpose


It is the purpose of this part to meet the special economic needs of rural communities or areas with concentrations or substantial numbers of low-income persons by providing support to self-help programs which promote economic development and [independence](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=1-B), as a supplement to existing similar programs conducted by other departments and [agencies](/usc/42/8262.md?p=1) of the Federal Government. Such programs should encourage low-income families to pool their talents and resources so as to create and expand rural economic enterprise.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 97–35, title VI, § 620, Aug. 13, 1981, 95 Stat. 493.)