---
kind: "section"
citation: "34 U.S.C. § 12403"
title: "34"
title_heading: "Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
number: "12403"
heading: "Application requirements"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/34/12403"
units:
  - "Subtitle I — Comprehensive Acts"
  - "Chapter 121 — Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
  - "Subchapter III — Violence Against Women"
  - "Part F — National Stalker and Domestic Violence Reduction"
---

# §12403. Application requirements


An application for a grant under this part shall be submitted in such form and manner, and contain such information, as the [Attorney General](/usc/34/10307.md?p=1) may prescribe. In addition, applications shall include documentation showing—

- (1) the need for grant funds and that [State](/usc/34/11103.md?p=7) or local funding, as the case may be, does not already cover these operations;
- (2) intended use of the grant funds, including a plan of action to increase record input; and
- (3) an estimate of expected results from the use of the grant funds.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 103–322, title IV, § 40604, Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 1951.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 14033 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.