---
kind: "section"
citation: "34 U.S.C. § 12144"
title: "34"
title_heading: "Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
number: "12144"
heading: "Applications"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/34/12144"
units:
  - "Subtitle I — Comprehensive Acts"
  - "Chapter 121 — Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
  - "Subchapter II — Crime Prevention"
  - "Part B — Model Intensive Grant Programs"
---

# §12144. Applications


To request a grant under this part the chief local elected official of an area shall—

- (1) prepare and submit to the [Attorney General](/usc/34/10307.md?p=1) an application in such form, at such time, and in accordance with such procedures, as the [Attorney General](/usc/34/10307.md?p=1) shall establish; and
- (2) provide an assurance that funds received under this part shall be used to supplement, not supplant, non-Federal funds that would otherwise be available for programs funded under this part.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 103–322, title III, § 30304, Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 1845.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 13774 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.