---
kind: "section"
citation: "34 U.S.C. § 12223"
title: "34"
title_heading: "Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
number: "12223"
heading: "Applications"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/34/12223"
units:
  - "Subtitle I — Comprehensive Acts"
  - "Chapter 121 — Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
  - "Subchapter II — Crime Prevention"
  - "Part F — Community-Based Justice Grants for Prosecutors"
---

# §12223. Applications

- (a) **Eligibility—** In order to be eligible to receive a grant under this part[^1] for any fiscal year, a [State](/usc/34/11103.md?p=7), [Indian](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-18) tribal, or local prosecutor, in conjunction with the chief executive officer of the jurisdiction in which the program will be placed, shall submit an application to the [Attorney General](/usc/34/10307.md?p=1) in such form and containing such information as the [Attorney General](/usc/34/10307.md?p=1) may reasonably require.
- (b) **Requirements—** Each applicant shall include—
  - (1) a request for funds for the purposes described in [section 12222 of this title](/usc/34/12222.md);
  - (2) a description of the communities to be served by the grant, including the nature of the [youth](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-52) crime, [youth](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-52) violence, and child abuse problems within such communities;
  - (3) assurances that Federal funds received under this part[^1] shall be used to supplement, not supplant, non-Federal funds that would otherwise be available for activities funded under this section; and
  - (4) statistical information in such form and containing such information that the [Attorney General](/usc/34/10307.md?p=1) may require.
- (c) **Comprehensive plan—** Each applicant shall include a comprehensive plan that shall contain—
  - (1) a description of the [youth](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-52) violence or child abuse crime problem;
  - (2) an action plan outlining how the applicant will achieve the purposes as described in [section 12222 of this title](/usc/34/12222.md);
  - (3) a description of the resources available in the community to implement the plan together with a description of the gaps in the plan that cannot be filled with existing resources; and
  - (4) a description of how the requested grant will be used to fill gaps.

## Footnotes

[^1]: See References in Text note below.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 103–322, title III, § 31703, Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 1891.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

This part, referred to in subsecs. (a) and (b)(3), appearing in the original, is unidentifiable because subtitle Q of title III of Pub. L. 103–322 does not contain parts.

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 13863 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.