---
kind: "section"
citation: "34 U.S.C. § 10641"
title: "34"
title_heading: "Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
number: "10641"
heading: "Grant authority"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/34/10641"
units:
  - "Subtitle I — Comprehensive Acts"
  - "Chapter 101 — Justice System Improvement"
  - "Subchapter XXXII — Crime Free Rural State Grants"
---

# §10641. Grant authority


The [Attorney General](/usc/34/10307.md?p=1) shall award grants to [rural State](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-33) criminal justice agencies, Byrne agencies, or other agencies as designated by the Governor of that [State](/usc/34/11103.md?p=7) and approved by the [Attorney General](/usc/34/10307.md?p=1), to develop [rural States](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-33)’ capacity to assist local communities in the prevention and reduction of crime, violence, and substance abuse.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 90–351, title I, § 2985, as added Pub. L. 107–273, div. C, title I, § 11027(b), Nov. 2, 2002, 116 Stat. 1834.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 3797y of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Short Title

For short title of section 11027 of Pub. L. 107–273, which enacted this subchapter, as the “Crime-Free Rural States Act of 2002”, see section 11027(a) of Pub. L. 107–273, set out as a Short Title of 2002 Act note under section 10101 of this title.