1. (a) When a grantee intends to carry out a grant project through cooperating or participating with one or more outside organizations, the grantee must obtain authorized approval signatures on the cooperative working agreement from each participating organization. Grantees must maintain on file a signed copy of all cooperative working agreements.
2. (b) Cooperative working agreements do not involve an exchange of funds.
3. (c) For multi-jurisdictional task force grants under the Byrne Formula Grant Program, a cooperative working agreement must include the signature of each sheriff in a multi-jurisdictional task force's impact area. Counties must be contiguous and the sheriff may not execute a cooperative working agreement with more than one task force project.
4. (d) Each grantee must submit to CJD a list of each participating organization that has entered into a cooperative working agreement with the grantee and a written description of the purpose of each cooperative working agreement.

Source Note:The provisions of this §3.2009 adopted to be effective February 24, 2000, 25 TexReg 1297; amended to be effective July 16, 2000, 25 TexReg 6485; amended to be effective December 16, 2002, 27 TexReg 11729; amended to be effective October 13, 2003, 28 TexReg 8873.