---
kind: "section"
citation: "34 U.S.C. § 40503"
title: "34"
title_heading: "Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
number: "40503"
heading: "Use of funds"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/34/40503"
units:
  - "Subtitle IV — Criminal Records and Information"
  - "Chapter 405 — Reporting of Unidentified and Missing Persons"
---

# §40503. Use of funds


An applicant receiving a grant award under this chapter may use such funds to—

- (1) pay for the costs incurred during or after fiscal year 2017 for the transportation, processing, identification, and reporting of missing persons and unidentified remains, including migrants;
- (2) establish and expand programs developed to improve the reporting of unidentified persons in accordance with the assurances provided in the application submitted pursuant to [section 40502(b) of this title](/usc/34/40502.md?p=b);
- (3) hire and maintain additional DNA case analysts and technicians, fingerprint examiners, forensic odontologists, and forensic anthropologists, needed to support such identification programs; and
- (4) procure and maintain [state](/usc/34/40104.md?p=11) of the art multi-modal, multi-purpose forensic and DNA-typing and analytical equipment.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 106–177, title II, § 205, as added Pub. L. 116–277, § 2(a)(3), Dec. 31, 2020, 134 Stat. 3369.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 40503, Pub. L. 106–177, title II, § 204, Mar. 10, 2000, 114 Stat. 36, related to uses of funds that a State received to establish or expand programs developed to improve the reporting of unidentified persons, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 116–277, § 2(a)(3), Dec. 31, 2020, 134 Stat. 3369. Such section was formerly classified to section 14663 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as section 40503.