---
kind: "section"
citation: "34 U.S.C. § 10515"
title: "34"
title_heading: "Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
number: "10515"
heading: "Restrictions on use of funds"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/34/10515"
units:
  - "Subtitle I — Comprehensive Acts"
  - "Chapter 101 — Justice System Improvement"
  - "Subchapter XXIII — Dna Identification Grants"
---

# §10515. Restrictions on use of funds

- (a) **Federal share—** The Federal share of a grant, contract, or cooperative agreement made under this subchapter may not exceed 75 percent of the total costs of the project described in the application submitted for the fiscal year for which the project receives assistance.
- (b) **Administrative costs—** A [State](/usc/34/11103.md?p=7) or [unit of local government](/usc/34/11103.md?p=8) may not use more than 10 percent of the funds it receives from[^1] this subchapter for administrative expenses.

## Footnotes

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

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 90–351, title I, § 2405, as added Pub. L. 103–322, title XXI, § 210302(c)(1)(C), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2067.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

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