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24 CFR 5.856: When must I prohibit admission of sex offenders?
Where this section sits in the code
- Title 24—Housing and Urban Development
- Subtitle A—Office of the Secretary, Department of Housing and Urban Development
- PART 5—GENERAL HUD PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS; WAIVERS
- Subpart I—Preventing Crime in Federally Assisted Housing—Denying Admission and Terminating Tenancy for Criminal Activity or Alcohol Abuse
You must establish standards that prohibit admission to federally assisted housing if any member of the household is subject to a lifetime registration requirement under a State sex offender registration program. In the screening of applicants, you must perform necessary criminal history background checks in the State where the housing is located and in other States where the household members are known to have resided. (See § 5.905.)
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