1994 US Code
Title 20 - EDUCATION
CHAPTER 2 - TEACHING OF AGRICULTURAL, TRADE, HOME ECONOMICS, AND INDUSTRIAL SUBJECTS
Sec. 16 - Acceptance of benefits of appropriations by States; creation of State boards

In order to secure the benefits of the appropriations provided for in sections 12 to 14 of this title, any State shall, through the legislative authority thereof, accept the provisions of this chapter and designate or create a State board, consisting of not less than three members, and having all necessary power to cooperate, as herein provided, with the Department of Education, in the administration of the provisions of this chapter. The State board of education, or other board having charge of the administration of public education in the State, or any State board having charge of the administration of any kind of vocational education in the State may, if the State so elect, be designated as the State board, for the purposes of this chapter.

Any State may accept the benefits of any one or more of the respective funds herein appropriated, and it may defer the acceptance of the benefits of any one or more of such funds, and shall be required to meet only the conditions relative to the fund or funds the benefits of which it has accepted, except that no State shall receive any appropriations for salaries of teachers, supervisors, or directors of agricultural subjects, until it shall have taken advantage of at least the minimum amount appropriated for the training of teachers, supervisors, or directors of agricultural subjects, as provided for in this chapter, and no State shall receive any appropriation for the salaries of teachers of trade, home economics, and industrial subjects until it shall have taken advantage of at least the minimum amount appropriated for the training of teachers of trade, home economics, and industrial subjects, as provided for in this chapter.

(Feb. 23, 1917, ch. 114, §5, 39 Stat. 931; Ex. Ord. No. 6166, §15, June 10, 1933; 1939 Reorg. Plan No. I, §§201, 204, eff. July 1, 1939, 4 F.R. 2728, 53 Stat. 1424; 1953 Reorg. Plan No. 1, §§5, 8, eff. Apr. 11, 1953, 18 F.R. 2053, 67 Stat. 631; Oct. 17, 1979, Pub. L. 96–88, title III, §301, title V, §507, 93 Stat. 677, 692.)

This chapter, referred to in text, was in the original “this Act”, meaning act Feb. 23, 1917, which was classified to sections 11 to 15 and 16 to 28 of this title. Other sections formerly contained in this chapter were based on other acts, and have been omitted or repealed.

“Department of Education” substituted in text for “Department of Health, Education, and Welfare” pursuant to sections 301 and 507 of Pub. L. 96–88, which are classified to sections 3441 and 3507 of this title and which transferred functions and offices (relating to education) of Department of Health, Education, and Welfare to Department of Education.

Functions of Federal Security Administrator transferred to Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare and all agencies of Federal Security Agency transferred to Department of Health, Education, and Welfare by section 5 of Reorg. Plan No. 1 of 1953, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees. Federal Security Agency and office of Administrator abolished by section 8 of Reorg. Plan No. 1 of 1953.

Transfer of functions of Federal Board for Vocational Education to Department of the Interior under Ex. Ord. No. 6166, set out as a note under section 901 of Title 5, and from there to Federal Security Agency by Reorg. Plan No. I of 1939, and in 1946 abolishment of Board and its functions by Reorg. Plan No. 2 of 1946, see notes set out under section 11 of this title.