34 USC § 40503 - Use of funds

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identifier: "/us/usc/t34/s40503"
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legal_status: "official_prima_facie"
title: "34 USC § 40503 - Use of funds"
title_number: 34
title_name: "CRIME CONTROL AND LAW ENFORCEMENT"
section_number: "40503"
section_name: "Use of funds"
chapter_number: 405
chapter_name: "REPORTING OF UNIDENTIFIED AND MISSING PERSONS"
positive_law: false
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(Pub. L. 106–177, title II, § 205, as added Pub. L. 116–277, § 2(a)(3), Dec. 31, 2020, 134 Stat. 3369.)"
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# § 40503. Use of funds

An applicant receiving a grant award under this chapter may use such funds to—

**(1)** pay for the costs incurred during or after fiscal year 2017 for the transportation, processing, identification, and reporting of missing persons and unidentified remains, including migrants;

**(2)** establish and expand programs developed to improve the reporting of unidentified persons in accordance with the assurances provided in the application submitted pursuant to section 40502(b) of this title;

**(3)** hire and maintain additional DNA case analysts and technicians, fingerprint examiners, forensic odontologists, and forensic anthropologists, needed to support such identification programs; and

**(4)** procure and maintain state of the art multi-modal, multi-purpose forensic and DNA-typing and analytical equipment.

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**Source Credit**: (Pub. L. 106–177, title II, § 205, as added Pub. L. 116–277, § 2(a)(3), Dec. 31, 2020, 134 Stat. 3369.)

## Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 40503, , , , related to uses of funds that a State received to establish or expand programs developed to improve the reporting of unidentified persons, prior to repeal by , , . Such section was formerly classified to , The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as section 40503.