---
kind: "section"
citation: "34 U.S.C. § 10405"
title: "34"
title_heading: "Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
number: "10405"
heading: "Guidelines"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/34/10405"
units:
  - "Subtitle I — Comprehensive Acts"
  - "Chapter 101 — Justice System Improvement"
  - "Subchapter XVII — Juvenile Accountability Block Grants"
---

# §10405. Guidelines

- (a) **In general—** The [Attorney General](/usc/34/10307.md?p=1) shall issue guidelines establishing procedures under which a [State](/usc/34/10410.md?p=3) or specifically[^1] qualified [unit of local government](/usc/34/10410.md?p=1) that receives funds under [section 10404 of this title](/usc/34/10404.md) is required to provide notice to the [Attorney General](/usc/34/10307.md?p=1) regarding the proposed use of funds made available under this subchapter.
- (b) **Advisory board—**
  - (1) **In general—** The guidelines referred to in [subsection (a)](#a) shall include a requirement that such eligible [State](/usc/34/10410.md?p=3) or [unit of local government](/usc/34/10410.md?p=1) establish and convene an advisory board to recommend a coordinated enforcement plan for the use of such funds.
  - (2) **Membership—** The board shall include representation from, if appropriate—
    - (A) the [State](/usc/34/10410.md?p=3) or local police department;
    - (B) the local sheriff’s department;
    - (C) the [State](/usc/34/10410.md?p=3) or local prosecutor’s office;
    - (D) the [State](/usc/34/10410.md?p=3) or local [juvenile](/usc/34/10410.md?p=4) court;
    - (E) the [State](/usc/34/10410.md?p=3) or local probation office;
    - (F) the [State](/usc/34/10410.md?p=3) or local educational agency;
    - (G) a [State](/usc/34/10410.md?p=3) or local social service agency;
    - (H) a nonprofit, nongovernmental victim advocacy organization; and
    - (I) a nonprofit, religious, or community group.

## Footnotes

[^1]: So in original. Probably should be “specially”.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 90–351, title I, § 1804, as added Pub. L. 107–273, div. C, title II, § 12102(a), Nov. 2, 2002, 116 Stat. 1865.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 3796ee–4 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 1804 of title I of Pub. L. 90–351, as added Pub. L. 103–322, title II, § 20201(a)(3), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 1820, and classified to former section 3796ee–3 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, related to applications by local governments, prior to the general amendment of part R of title I of Pub. L. 90–351 by Pub. L. 107–273.