---
kind: "section"
citation: "34 U.S.C. § 10388"
title: "34"
title_heading: "Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
number: "10388"
heading: "General regulatory authority"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/34/10388"
units:
  - "Subtitle I — Comprehensive Acts"
  - "Chapter 101 — Justice System Improvement"
  - "Subchapter XVI — Public Safety and Community Policing; “cops on the Beat”"
---

# §10388. General regulatory authority


The [Attorney General](/usc/34/10307.md?p=1) may promulgate regulations and guidelines to carry out this subchapter.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 90–351, title I, § 1708, as added Pub. L. 103–322, title I, § 10003(a)(3), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 1813.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 3796dd–7 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.