---
kind: "section"
citation: "34 U.S.C. § 12142"
title: "34"
title_heading: "Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
number: "12142"
heading: "Uses of funds"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/34/12142"
units:
  - "Subtitle I — Comprehensive Acts"
  - "Chapter 121 — Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
  - "Subchapter II — Crime Prevention"
  - "Part B — Model Intensive Grant Programs"
---

# §12142. Uses of funds

- (a) **In general—** Funds awarded under this part may be used only for purposes described in an approved application. The intent of grants under this part is to fund intensively comprehensive crime prevention programs in chronic high intensive crime areas.
- (b) **Guidelines—** The [Attorney General](/usc/34/10307.md?p=1) shall issue and publish in the Federal Register guidelines that describe suggested purposes for which funds under approved programs may be used.
- (c) **Equitable distribution of funds—** In disbursing funds under this part, the [Attorney General](/usc/34/10307.md?p=1) shall ensure the distribution of awards equitably on a geographic basis, including urban and [rural areas](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-32) of varying population and geographic size.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 103–322, title III, § 30302, Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 1845.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 13772 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.