---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 9811"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "9811"
heading: "Limitation on assistance"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/9811"
units:
  - "Chapter 105 — Community Services Programs"
  - "Subchapter I — Community Economic Development"
  - "Part B — Special Rural Programs"
---

# §9811. Limitation on assistance


No financial assistance shall be provided under this part unless the [Secretary](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=2) determines that—

- (1) any cooperative association receiving assistance has a minimum of fifteen active members, a majority of which are low-income rural persons;
- (2) adequate technical assistance is made available and committed to the programs being supported;
- (3) such financial assistance will materially further the purposes of this part; and
- (4) the applicant is fulfilling or will fulfill a need for services, supplies, or facilities which is otherwise not being met.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 97–35, title VI, § 622, Aug. 13, 1981, 95 Stat. 494.)