TITLE 39

HEALTH AND SAFETY

CHAPTER 52

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PROJECT GRANTS

39-5210.  Eligible projects. To be eligible for domestic violence grants pursuant to this chapter, a project must provide a safe house or refuge and a crisis line, except in the case of a project providing services to batterers. No funds may be granted to batterer programs from the domestic violence project account which are derived from marriage license or divorce fees. Other services which may be provided include, but are not limited to:

(1)  Counseling;

(2)  Educational services for community awareness, for prevention of domestic violence and for the care, treatment and rehabilitation of parties to domestic violence;

(3)  Support groups;

(4)  Assistance in obtaining legal, medical, psychological or vocational services.

History:

[39-5210, added 1982, ch. 181, sec. 1, p. 472; am. 1990, ch. 243, sec. 1, p. 695; am. 1992, ch. 51, sec. 1, p. 156; am. 2000, ch. 343, sec. 7, p. 1164.]