---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 4956"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "4956"
heading: "Participation of program beneficiaries"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/4956"
units:
  - "Chapter 66 — Domestic Volunteer Services"
  - "Subchapter I — National Volunteer Antipoverty Programs"
  - "Part A — Volunteers in Service to America"
---

# §4956. Participation of program beneficiaries


To the maximum extent practicable, the people of the communities to be served by volunteers under this subchapter shall participate in planning, developing, and implementing [programs](/usc/42/274l–1.md?p=4) thereunder, and the [Director](/usc/42/5061.md?p=1), after consultation with sponsoring agencies (including volunteers assigned to them) and the people served by such agencies, shall establish in regulations, a continuing mechanism for the meaningful participation of such [program](/usc/42/274l–1.md?p=4) beneficiaries.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 93–113, title I, § 106, Oct. 1, 1973, 87 Stat. 398; Pub. L. 98–288, § 7, May 21, 1984, 98 Stat. 191.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1984—Pub. L. 98–288 substituted “establish in regulations” for “take all necessary steps to establish, in regulations he shall prescribe”.