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. ' <br />North Carolina Division of Aging <br />Legal Services -Policies and Procedures <br />Effective Date - July 1, 1992 <br />LEGAL SERVICES ' <br />S. Demonstrate the capacity tv provide support to <br />.othher advocacy efforts, for example, the <br />long--term ombudsman program; and <br />6. Yf engaging in other legal activities, <br />provides assurance that there is no'conflict <br />of interest nor other interference with their <br />professional responsibilities. <br />C. Prohibited Activities <br />It is the responsibility of the provider to: <br />1. Ensure that no employee and no staff attorney <br />of the provider at any time: <br />a. Uses official authority or influence for <br />the purpose of inter€ering with or <br />affecting the results of an election or <br />nomination far office, wY~ether partisan <br />or nonpartisan; <br />b. Directly ar indirectly coerces, attempts <br />to coerce, command or advise an employee <br />of any provider to pay, lend, or <br />contribute anything of value to a <br />political party, committee,.organization, <br />agency or person for political purposes. <br />2. Ensure th~regal services are not provided in <br />fee-generating cases, as defined in 45.CFR <br />132],.71(8)(1), unless adequate representation <br />is unavailable or there is an emergency <br />requiring immediate legal. action. All <br />providers shall establish procedures far the <br />referral of fee generating cases. <br />3. ~ Ensure that no employes and na staff attorney <br />of the provider shall directly ar indirectly <br />engage in activities intended to influence the <br />passage or defeat of any legislation by the <br />Congress of the United States or by any State <br />or local legislative body or State proposals <br />by initiative petition except where: <br />a. Representation by a provider for a client <br />is necessary with respect to such <br />client's rights and responsibilities <br />(except that no employee shall solicit a. <br />client in violation of professional <br />responsibilities for the purpose of <br />making such representation possible); ar <br />