Business and Professions Code - BPC
DIVISION 3. PROFESSIONS AND VOCATIONS GENERALLY [5000 - 9998.11]
( Heading of Division 3 added by Stats. 1939, Ch. 30. ) CHAPTER 4. Attorneys [6000 - 6243]
( Chapter 4 added by Stats. 1939, Ch. 34. ) ARTICLE 14. Funds for the Provision of Legal Services to Indigent Persons [6210 - 6228]
( Article 14 added by Stats. 1981, Ch. 789, Sec. 1. ) 6218.
All legal services projects and support centers receiving funds pursuant to this article shall adopt financial eligibility guidelines for indigent persons.
(a) Qualified legal services programs shall ensure that funds appropriated pursuant to this article shall be used solely to defray the costs of providing legal services to indigent persons or for such other purposes as set forth in this article.
(b) Funds received pursuant to this article by support centers shall only be used to provide services to qualified legal services projects as defined in subdivision (a) of Section 6213 which are used pursuant to a plan as required by subdivision (c) of Section 6216, or as permitted by Section 6219.
(Added by Stats. 1981, Ch. 789, Sec. 1.)