---
kind: "section"
citation: "34 U.S.C. § 12410"
title: "34"
title_heading: "Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
number: "12410"
heading: "Definitions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/34/12410"
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"
---

# §12410. Definitions


As used in this part—

- (1) the term “national crime information databases” refers to the National Crime Information Center and its incorporated criminal history databases, including the Interstate Identification Index; and
- (2) the term “[protection order](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-29)” includes an injunction or any other order issued for the purpose of preventing violent or threatening acts or harassment against, or [contact](/usc/34/11103.md?p=39) or communication with or physical proximity to, another person, including temporary and final orders issued by civil or criminal [courts](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-7) (other than support or child custody orders) whether obtained by filing an independent action or as a pendente lite order in another proceeding so long as any civil order was issued in response to a complaint, petition, or motion filed by or on behalf of a person seeking protection.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 103–322, title IV, § 40611, Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 1952.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 14040 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.