---
kind: "section"
citation: "34 U.S.C. § 10642"
title: "34"
title_heading: "Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
number: "10642"
heading: "Use of funds"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/34/10642"
units:
  - "Subtitle I — Comprehensive Acts"
  - "Chapter 101 — Justice System Improvement"
  - "Subchapter XXXII — Crime Free Rural State Grants"
---

# §10642. Use of funds

- (a) **In general—** A capacity building grant shall be used to develop a statewide strategic plan as described in [section 10643 of this title](/usc/34/10643.md) to prevent and reduce crime, violence, and substance abuse.
- (b) **Permissive use—** A [rural State](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-33) may also use its grant to provide training and technical assistance to communities and promote innovation in the development of policies, technologies, and programs to prevent and reduce crime.
- (c) **Data collection—** A [rural State](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-33) may use up to 5 percent of the grant to assist grant recipients in collecting statewide data related to the costs of crime, violence, and substance abuse for purposes of supporting the statewide strategic plan.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 90–351, title I, § 2986, 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–1 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.