---
kind: "section"
citation: "34 U.S.C. § 10517"
title: "34"
title_heading: "Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
number: "10517"
heading: "Expenditure records"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/34/10517"
units:
  - "Subtitle I — Comprehensive Acts"
  - "Chapter 101 — Justice System Improvement"
  - "Subchapter XXIII — Dna Identification Grants"
---

# §10517. Expenditure records

- (a) **Records—** Each [State](/usc/34/11103.md?p=7) or [unit of local government](/usc/34/11103.md?p=8) which receives a grant under this subchapter shall keep records as the [Attorney General](/usc/34/10307.md?p=1) may require to facilitate an effective audit.
- (b) **Access—** The [Attorney General](/usc/34/10307.md?p=1), the Comptroller General, or their designated agents shall have access, for the purpose of audit and examination, to any books, documents, and records of [States](/usc/34/11103.md?p=7) and units of local government which receive grants made under this subchapter if, in the opinion of the [Attorney General](/usc/34/10307.md?p=1), the Comptroller General, or their designated agents, such books, documents, and records are related to the receipt or use of any such grant.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 90–351, title I, § 2407, 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–6 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.