---
kind: "section"
citation: "34 U.S.C. § 40315"
title: "34"
title_heading: "Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
number: "40315"
heading: "Enforcement and implementation"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/34/40315"
units:
  - "Subtitle IV — Criminal Records and Information"
  - "Chapter 403 — Criminal Justice Identification, Information, and Communication"
  - "Subchapter II — Exchange of Criminal History Records for Noncriminal Justice Purposes"
---

# §40315. Enforcement and implementation


All departments, agencies, officers, and employees of the United States shall enforce the [Compact](/usc/34/40312.md?p=2) and cooperate with one another and with all [Party States](/usc/34/40312.md?p=5) in enforcing the [Compact](/usc/34/40312.md?p=2) and effectuating its purposes. For the Federal Government, the [Attorney General](/usc/34/40312.md?p=1) shall make such rules, prescribe such instructions, and take such other actions as may be necessary to carry out the [Compact](/usc/34/40312.md?p=2) and this subchapter.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 105–251, title II, § 216, Oct. 9, 1998, 112 Stat. 1875.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 14615 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.