---
kind: "section"
citation: "34 U.S.C. § 20912"
title: "34"
title_heading: "Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
number: "20912"
heading: "Registry requirements for jurisdictions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/34/20912"
units:
  - "Subtitle II — Protection of Children and Other Persons"
  - "Chapter 209 — Child Protection and Safety"
  - "Subchapter I — Sex Offender Registration and Notification"
  - "Part A — Sex Offender Registration and Notification"
---

# §20912. Registry requirements for jurisdictions

- (a) **Jurisdiction to maintain a registry—** Each [jurisdiction](/usc/34/20911.md?p=10) shall maintain a [jurisdiction](/usc/34/20911.md?p=10)-wide [sex offender registry](/usc/34/20911.md?p=9) conforming to the requirements of this subchapter.
- (b) **Guidelines and regulations—** The Attorney General shall issue guidelines and regulations to interpret and implement this subchapter.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 109–248, title I, § 112, July 27, 2006, 120 Stat. 593.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

This subchapter, referred to in text, was in the original “this title”, meaning title I of Pub. L. 109–248, July 27, 2006, 120 Stat. 590, known as the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act. For complete classification of title I to the Code, see Short Title of 2006 Act note set out under section 10101 of this title and Tables.

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 16912 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.