---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 12655j"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "12655j"
heading: "Use of volunteers"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/12655j"
units:
  - "Chapter 129 — National and Community Service"
  - "Subchapter I — National and Community Service State Grant Program"
  - "Division I — American Conservation and Youth Service Corps"
---

# §12655j. Use of volunteers


[Program](/usc/42/12626.md?p=8) [agencies](/usc/42/8262.md?p=1) may use volunteer services for purposes of assisting [projects](/usc/42/13641.md?p=2) carried out under this division and may expend funds made available for those purposes to the [agency](/usc/42/8262.md?p=1), including funds made available under this division, to provide for services or costs incidental to the utilization of such volunteers, including transportation, supplies, lodging, recruiting, training, and supervision. The use of volunteer services under this section shall be subject to the condition that such use does not result in the displacement of any participant.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 101–610, title I, § 199J, formerly § 131, Nov. 16, 1990, 104 Stat. 3147; renumbered § 199K, renumbered § 199J, Pub. L. 103–82, title I, § 101(a), (e)(8)(B), Sept. 21, 1993, 107 Stat. 788, 816.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 12551 of this title prior to renumbering by Pub. L. 103–82, § 101(a).