---
kind: "section"
citation: "34 U.S.C. § 12185"
title: "34"
title_heading: "Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
number: "12185"
heading: "Limitations on use of funds"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/34/12185"
units:
  - "Subtitle I — Comprehensive Acts"
  - "Chapter 121 — Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
  - "Subchapter II — Crime Prevention"
  - "Part E — National Community Economic Partnership"
  - "Subpart 1 — community economic partnership investment funds"
---

# §12185. Limitations on use of funds

- (a) **Matching requirement—** Not to exceed 50 percent of the total amount to be invested by an entity under this subpart may be derived from funds made available from a line of credit under this subpart.
- (b) **Technical assistance and administration—** Not to exceed 10 percent of the amounts available from a line of credit under this subpart shall be used for the provision of training or technical assistance and for the planning, development, and management of economic development projects. [Community development corporations](/usc/34/12211.md?p=1) shall be encouraged by the Secretary to seek technical assistance from other [community development corporations](/usc/34/12211.md?p=1), with expertise in the planning, development and management of economic development projects. The Secretary shall assist in the identification and facilitation of such technical assistance.
- (c) **Local and private sector contributions—** To receive funds available under a line of credit provided under this subpart, an entity, using procedures established by the Secretary, shall demonstrate to the [community development corporation](/usc/34/12211.md?p=1) that such entity agrees to provide [local and private sector contributions](/usc/34/12211.md?p=2) in accordance with [section 12182(b)(2)(D) of this title](/usc/34/12182.md?p=b-2-D), will participate with such [community development corporation](/usc/34/12211.md?p=1) in a loan, guarantee or investment program for a designated business enterprise, and that the total financial commitment to be provided by such entity is at least equal to the amount to be drawn from the line of credit.
- (d) **Use of proceeds from investments—** Proceeds derived from investments made using funds made available under this subpart may be used only for the purposes described in [section 12181 of this title](/usc/34/12181.md) and shall be reinvested in the community in which they were generated.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 103–322, title III, § 31115, Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 1884.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 13825 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.