---
kind: "section"
citation: "34 U.S.C. § 10383"
title: "34"
title_heading: "Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
number: "10383"
heading: "Renewal of grants"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/34/10383"
units:
  - "Subtitle I — Comprehensive Acts"
  - "Chapter 101 — Justice System Improvement"
  - "Subchapter XVI — Public Safety and Community Policing; “cops on the Beat”"
---

# §10383. Renewal of grants

- (a) **In general—** Except for grants made for hiring or rehiring additional [career law enforcement officers](/usc/34/10389.md?p=1), a grant under this subchapter may be renewed for up to 2 additional years after the first fiscal year during which a recipient receives its initial grant, if the [Attorney General](/usc/34/10307.md?p=1) determines that the funds made available to the recipient were used in a manner required under an approved application and if the recipient can demonstrate significant progress in achieving the objectives of the initial application.
- (b) **Grants for hiring—** Grants made for hiring or rehiring additional [career law enforcement officers](/usc/34/10389.md?p=1) may be renewed for up to 5 years, subject to the requirements of [subsection (a)](#a), but notwithstanding the limitation in that subsection concerning the number of years for which grants may be renewed.
- (c) **Multiyear grants—** A grant for a period exceeding 1 year may be renewed as provided in this section, except that the total duration of such a grant including any renewals may not exceed 3 years, or 5 years if it is a grant made for hiring or rehiring additional [career law enforcement officers](/usc/34/10389.md?p=1).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 90–351, title I, § 1703, as added Pub. L. 103–322, title I, § 10003(a)(3), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 1812.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 3796dd–2 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.