---
kind: "section"
citation: "34 U.S.C. § 50108"
title: "34"
title_heading: "Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
number: "50108"
heading: "Recordkeeping requirement"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/34/50108"
units:
  - "Subtitle V — Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Personnel"
  - "Chapter 501 — Emergency Federal Law Enforcement Assistance"
---

# §50108. Recordkeeping requirement

- (a) Each recipient of [Federal law enforcement assistance](/usc/34/50102.md?p=1) provided under this chapter shall keep such records as the Attorney General may prescribe to facilitate an effective audit.
- (b) The Attorney General and the Comptroller General of the United States shall have access, for the purpose of audit and examination, to any books, documents, and records of recipients of [Federal law enforcement assistance](/usc/34/50102.md?p=1) provided under this chapter which, in the opinion of the Attorney General or the Comptroller General, are related to the receipt or use of such assistance.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 98–473, title II, § 609T, Oct. 12, 1984, 98 Stat. 2106.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 10508 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.