---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 10803"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "10803"
heading: "Allotments"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/10803"
units:
  - "Chapter 114 — Protection and Advocacy for Individuals with Mental Illness"
  - "Subchapter I — Protection and Advocacy Systems"
  - "Part A — Establishment of Systems"
---

# §10803. Allotments


The [Secretary](/usc/42/10802.md?p=6) shall make allotments under this subchapter to [eligible systems](/usc/42/10802.md?p=2) to establish and administer systems—

- (1) which meet the requirements of [section 10805 of this title](/usc/42/10805.md); and
- (2) which are designed to—
  - (A) protect and advocate the rights of individuals with mental illness; and
  - (B) investigate incidents of [abuse](/usc/42/10802.md?p=1) and [neglect](/usc/42/10802.md?p=5) of individuals with mental illness if the incidents are reported to the system or if there is probable cause to believe that the incidents occurred.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 99–319, title I, § 103, May 23, 1986, 100 Stat. 479; Pub. L. 102–173, § 10(2), Nov. 27, 1991, 105 Stat. 1219.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1991—Par. (2). Pub. L. 102–173 substituted “individuals with mental illness” for “mentally ill individuals” in two places.