It shall be the direct responsibility of the Rural Manpower Services Program to promote and deliver all employment and manpower services and resources to the rural undeveloped and underdeveloped counties of the state in an effort to:

1. (1) Slow down out-migration of untrained rural residents to the state's overcrowded large metropolitan centers.
2. (2) Assist the department's Economic Development Division in attracting light, pollution-free industry to the rural counties.
3. (3) Improve the economic status of the impoverished rural residents.
4. (4) Provide present and new industry with the manpower training resources necessary for them to train the untrained rural workforce toward gainful employment.

5. (5) Develop rural manpower programs which will be evaluated, planned, and implemented through communications and planning with appropriate:

   1. (a) Departments of state and federal governments.
   2. (b) Divisions, bureaus, or sections of the ¹Department of Commerce.

   3. (c) Agencies and organizations of the public and private sectors at the state, regional, and local levels.

      ¹Note.--Section 20.17, which created the Department of Commerce, was repealed effective December 31, 1996, by s. 3, ch. 96-320.

History.--s. 5, ch. 72-398; s. 1, ch. 73-283; s. 1, ch. 77-174.

Note.--Former s. 450.44.