---
kind: "section"
citation: "34 U.S.C. § 12252"
title: "34"
title_heading: "Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
number: "12252"
heading: "Eligibility to receive grants"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/34/12252"
units:
  - "Subtitle I — Comprehensive Acts"
  - "Chapter 121 — Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
  - "Subchapter II — Crime Prevention"
  - "Part G — Family Unity Demonstration Project"
  - "Subpart 1 — grants to states"
---

# §12252. Eligibility to receive grants


To be eligible to receive a grant under [section 12251 of this title](/usc/34/12251.md), a [State](/usc/34/11103.md?p=7) shall submit to the [Attorney General](/usc/34/10307.md?p=1) an application at such time, in such form, and containing such information as the [Attorney General](/usc/34/10307.md?p=1) reasonably may require by rule.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 103–322, title III, § 31912, Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 1895.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 13892 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.