---
kind: "section"
citation: "34 U.S.C. § 12224"
title: "34"
title_heading: "Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
number: "12224"
heading: "Allocation of funds; limitations on grants"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/34/12224"
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"
---

# §12224. Allocation of funds; limitations on grants

- (a) **Administrative cost limitation—** The [Attorney General](/usc/34/10307.md?p=1) shall use not more than 5 percent of the funds available under this program for the purposes of administration and technical assistance.
- (b) **Renewal of grants—** A grant under this part[^1] may be renewed for up to 2 additional years after the first fiscal year during which the recipient receives its initial grant under this part,[^1] subject to the availability of funds, if—
  - (1) the [Attorney General](/usc/34/10307.md?p=1) determines that the funds made available to the recipient during the previous years were used in a manner required under the approved application; and
  - (2) the [Attorney General](/usc/34/10307.md?p=1) determines that an additional grant is necessary to implement the community [prosecution](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-28) program described in the comprehensive plan required by [section 12223 of this title](/usc/34/12223.md).

## Footnotes

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

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 103–322, title III, § 31704, Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 1891.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

This part, referred to in subsec. (b), 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 13864 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.