---
kind: "section"
citation: "34 U.S.C. § 11281"
title: "34"
title_heading: "Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
number: "11281"
heading: "Restriction on use of funds"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/34/11281"
units:
  - "Subtitle I — Comprehensive Acts"
  - "Chapter 111 — Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention"
  - "Subchapter III — Runaway and Homeless Youth"
  - "Part F — General Provisions"
---

# §11281. Restriction on use of funds

- (a) **In general—** None of the funds contained in this subchapter may be used for any program of distributing sterile needles or syringes for the hypodermic injection of any illegal drug.
- (b) **Separate accounting—** Any individual or entity who receives any funds contained in this subchapter and who carries out any program described in [subsection (a)](#a) shall account for all funds used for such program separately from any funds contained in this subchapter.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 93–415, title III, § 389, as added Pub. L. 108–96, title I, § 120, Oct. 10, 2003, 117 Stat. 1171.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 5752 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.