---
kind: "section"
citation: "34 U.S.C. § 11188"
title: "34"
title_heading: "Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
number: "11188"
heading: "Rules of construction"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/34/11188"
units:
  - "Subtitle I — Comprehensive Acts"
  - "Chapter 111 — Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention"
  - "Subchapter II — Programs and Offices"
  - "Part F — General and Administrative Provisions"
---

# §11188. Rules of construction


Nothing in this subchapter or subchapter I shall be construed—

- (1) to prevent financial assistance from being awarded through grants under this subchapter to any otherwise eligible organization; or
- (2) to modify or affect any Federal or [State](/usc/34/11103.md?p=7) law relating to collective bargaining rights of employees.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 93–415, title II, § 299G, as added Pub. L. 107–273, div. C, title II, § 12217, Nov. 2, 2002, 116 Stat. 1893.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 5678 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective on the first day of the first fiscal year that begins after Nov. 2, 2002, and applicable only with respect to fiscal years beginning on or after the first day of the first fiscal year that begins after Nov. 2, 2002, see section 12223 of Pub. L. 107–273, set out as an Effective Date of 2002 Amendment note under section 11101 of this title.