---
kind: "section"
citation: "34 U.S.C. § 10495"
title: "34"
title_heading: "Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
number: "10495"
heading: "Award of grants; limitation"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/34/10495"
units:
  - "Subtitle I — Comprehensive Acts"
  - "Chapter 101 — Justice System Improvement"
  - "Subchapter XXII — Support for Law Enforcement Officers and Families"
---

# §10495. Award of grants; limitation

- (a) **Grant distribution—** In approving grants under this subchapter, the [Attorney General](/usc/34/10307.md?p=1) shall assure an equitable distribution of assistance among the [States](/usc/34/11103.md?p=7), among urban and [rural areas](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-32) of the United States, and among urban and [rural areas](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-32) of a [State](/usc/34/11103.md?p=7).
- (b) **Duration—** The [Attorney General](/usc/34/10307.md?p=1) may award a grant each fiscal year, not to exceed $100,000 to a [State](/usc/34/11103.md?p=7) or local [law enforcement](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-23) agency or $250,000 to a [law enforcement](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-23) organization for a period not to exceed 5 years. In any application from a [State](/usc/34/11103.md?p=7) or local [law enforcement](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-23) agency or organization for a grant to continue a program for the second, third, fourth, or fifth fiscal year following the first fiscal year in which a grant was awarded to such agency, the [Attorney General](/usc/34/10307.md?p=1) shall review the progress made toward meeting the objectives of the program. The [Attorney General](/usc/34/10307.md?p=1) may refuse to award a grant if the [Attorney General](/usc/34/10307.md?p=1) finds sufficient progress has not been made toward meeting such objectives, but only after affording the applicant notice and an opportunity for reconsideration.
- (c) **Limitation—** Not more than 5 percent of grant funds received by a [State](/usc/34/11103.md?p=7) or a local [law enforcement](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-23) agency or organization may be used for administrative purposes.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 90–351, title I, § 2305, as added Pub. L. 103–322, title XXI, § 210201(a)(3), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2063.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

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