---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 10710"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "10710"
heading: "Records and reports"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/10710"
units:
  - "Chapter 113 — State Justice Institute"
---

# §10710. Records and reports

- (a) **Reports—** The [Institute](/usc/42/10701.md?p=4) is authorized to require such reports as it deems necessary from any [recipient](/usc/42/10701.md?p=5) with respect to activities carried out pursuant to this chapter.
- (b) **Records—** The [Institute](/usc/42/10701.md?p=4) is authorized to prescribe the keeping of records with respect to funds provided by any grant, cooperative agreement, or contract under this chapter and shall have access to such records at all reasonable times for the purpose of ensuring compliance with such grant, cooperative agreement, or contract or the terms and conditions upon which financial assistance was provided.
- (c) **Submission of copies of reports to recipients; maintenance in principal office of Institute; availability for public inspection; furnishing of copies to interested parties—** Copies of all reports pertinent to the evaluation, inspection, or monitoring of any [recipient](/usc/42/10701.md?p=5) shall be submitted on a timely basis to such [recipient](/usc/42/10701.md?p=5), and shall be maintained in the principal office of the [Institute](/usc/42/10701.md?p=4) for a period of at least five years after such evaluation, inspection, or monitoring. Such reports shall be available for public inspection during regular business hours, and copies shall be furnished, upon request, to interested parties upon payment of such reasonable fees as the [Institute](/usc/42/10701.md?p=4) may establish.
- (d) **Funds accounted for and reported as receipts and disbursements separate and distinct from Federal funds—** Non-Federal funds received by the [Institute](/usc/42/10701.md?p=4), and funds received for [projects](/usc/42/13641.md?p=2) funded in part by the [Institute](/usc/42/10701.md?p=4) or by any [recipient](/usc/42/10701.md?p=5) from a source other than the [Institute](/usc/42/10701.md?p=4), shall be accounted for and reported as receipts and disbursements separate and distinct from Federal funds.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 98–620, title II, § 211, Nov. 8, 1984, 98 Stat. 3344.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

This chapter, referred to in subsecs. (a) and (b), was in the original “this title”, meaning title II of Pub. L. 98–620, Nov. 8, 1984, 98 Stat. 3336, known as the State Justice Institute Act of 1984, which is classified principally to this chapter. For complete classification of title II to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 10701 of this title and Tables.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective Oct. 1, 1985, see section 216 of Pub. L. 98–620, set out as a note under section 10701 of this title.