---
kind: "section"
citation: "34 U.S.C. § 10473"
title: "34"
title_heading: "Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
number: "10473"
heading: "Administration"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/34/10473"
units:
  - "Subtitle I — Comprehensive Acts"
  - "Chapter 101 — Justice System Improvement"
  - "Subchapter XXI — Mental Health Courts"
---

# §10473. Administration

- (a) **Consultation—** The [Attorney General](/usc/34/10307.md?p=1) shall consult with the Secretary of Health and Human [Services](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-51) and any other appropriate officials in carrying out this subchapter.
- (b) **Use of components—** The [Attorney General](/usc/34/10307.md?p=1) may utilize any component or components of the Department of Justice in carrying out this subchapter.
- (c) **Regulatory authority—** The [Attorney General](/usc/34/10307.md?p=1) shall issue regulations and guidelines necessary to carry out this subchapter which include, but are not limited to, the methodologies and outcome measures proposed for evaluating each applicant program.
- (d) **Applications—** In addition to any other requirements that may be specified by the [Attorney General](/usc/34/10307.md?p=1), an application for a grant under this subchapter shall—
  - (1) include a long-term strategy and detailed implementation plan;
  - (2) explain the applicant’s inability to fund the program adequately without Federal assistance;
  - (3) certify that the Federal support provided will be used to supplement, and not supplant, [State](/usc/34/11103.md?p=7), [Indian](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-18) tribal, and local sources of funding that would otherwise be available;
  - (4) identify related governmental or community initiatives which complement or will be coordinated with the proposal;
  - (5) certify that there has been appropriate consultation with all affected agencies and that there will be appropriate coordination with all affected agencies in the implementation of the program, including the [State](/usc/34/11103.md?p=7) mental health authority;
  - (6) certify that participating offenders will be supervised by one or more designated judges with responsibility for the mental health court program;
  - (7) specify plans for obtaining necessary support and continuing the proposed program following the conclusion of Federal support;
  - (8) describe the methodology and outcome measures that will be used in evaluating the program; and
  - (9) certify that participating first time offenders without a history of a [mental illness](/usc/34/10472.md?p=1) will receive a mental health evaluation.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 90–351, title I, § 2203, as added Pub. L. 106–515, § 3(a), Nov. 13, 2000, 114 Stat. 2400.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

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

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 2203 of title I of Pub. L. 90–351, as added Pub. L. 103–322, title V, § 50001(a)(3), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 1956, defined “violent offender”, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 104–134, title I, § 101[(a)] [title I, § 114(b)(1)(A)], Apr. 26, 1996, 110 Stat. 1321, 1321–21; renumbered title I, Pub. L. 104–140, § 1(a), May 2, 1996, 110 Stat. 1327.