Prohibited activities
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A recipient of Federal funds from the Department of Housing and Urban Development may not— (1) compel, by threat or imposition of punishment, a person engaging in life-sustaining activities on public property to reside in a facility designated for housing or sheltering homeless persons; (2) compel a person residing in a facility designated for housing or sheltering homeless persons to provide labor in order to reside in such facility; (3) threaten or impose punishment on a homeless person because such person is engaging in life-sustaining activities on public property; or (4) provide assistance to any State or local law enforcement officer or private contractor acting under color of Federal law or receiving Federal funds to threaten or impose punishment on a homeless person because such person is engaging in life-sustaining activities on public property.