The office of program evaluation shall have a permanent division of advocacy for the developmentally disabled which may perform, or contract for the performance of, those advocacy functions required by federal law. The division may receive and expend, through the office of program evaluation, such federal funds as are or may become available under federal law as well as any state funds appropriated for its purposes.Acts 1977, ch. 317, § 5; T.C.A., § 3-1406.
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