---
kind: "section"
citation: "8 U.S.C. § 1370"
title: "8"
title_heading: "Aliens and Nationality"
number: "1370"
heading: "Reimbursement of States and localities for emergency ambulance services"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/8/1370"
units:
  - "Chapter 12 — Immigration and Nationality"
  - "Subchapter II — Immigration"
  - "Part IX — Miscellaneous"
---

# §1370. Reimbursement of States and localities for emergency ambulance services


Subject to the availability of appropriations, the [Attorney General](/usc/8/1101.md?p=a-5) shall fully reimburse [States](/usc/8/1101.md?p=a-36) and political subdivisions of [States](/usc/8/1101.md?p=a-36) for costs incurred by such a [State](/usc/8/1101.md?p=a-36) or subdivision for emergency ambulance [services](/usc/8/1101.md?p=a-34) provided to any [alien](/usc/8/1101.md?p=a-3) who—

- (1) is injured while crossing a land or sea border of the [United States](/usc/8/1101.md?p=a-38) without inspection or at any time or place other than as designated by the [Attorney General](/usc/8/1101.md?p=a-5); and
- (2) is under the custody of the [State](/usc/8/1101.md?p=a-36) or subdivision pursuant to a transfer, request, or other action by a Federal authority.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 104–208, div. C, title V, § 563, Sept. 30, 1996, 110 Stat. 3009–683.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was enacted as part of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996, and also as part of the Omnibus Consolidated Appropriations Act, 1997, and not as part of the Immigration and Nationality Act which comprises this chapter.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Abolition of Immigration and Naturalization Service and Transfer of Functions

For abolition of Immigration and Naturalization Service, transfer of functions, and treatment of related references, see note set out under section 1551 of this title.