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§10532 Applications

Title 34 › Subtitle Subtitle I— - Comprehensive Acts › Chapter CHAPTER 101— - JUSTICE SYSTEM IMPROVEMENT › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER XXIV— - MATCHING GRANT PROGRAM FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT ARMOR VESTS › § 10532

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

State, local, or tribal chief executives must apply to the Director of the Bureau of Justice Assistance to get a grant. The application must use the form and include the information the Director reasonably requires. The Director had to issue rules explaining what to include and what applicants must meet no later than 90 days after June 16, 1998. A local government that got money from the Local Law Enforcement Block Grant in the same fiscal year cannot get a grant here unless its chief executive tells and explains to the Director that it considered using those block grant funds for armor vests but did not or will not. If an application is for buying armor vests, grant money cannot pay for that purchase unless, before applying, the applicant got clear notice the grant might not be approved and explicitly agreed to go ahead even if the grant is not received.

Full Legal Text

Title 34, §10532

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(a)To request a grant under this subchapter, the chief executive of a State, unit of local government, or Indian tribe shall submit an application to the Director of the Bureau of Justice Assistance in such form and containing such information as the Director may reasonably require.
(b)Not later than 90 days after June 16, 1998, the Director of the Bureau of Justice Assistance shall promulgate regulations to implement this section (including the information that must be included and the requirements that the States, units of local government, and Indian tribes must meet) in submitting the applications required under this section.
(c)A unit of local government that receives funding under the Local Law Enforcement Block Grant program (described under the heading “Violent Crime Reduction Programs, State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance” of the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1998 (Public Law 105–119)) during a fiscal year in which it submits an application under this subchapter shall not be eligible for a grant under this subchapter unless the chief executive officer of such unit of local government certifies and provides an explanation to the Director that the unit of local government considered or will consider using funding received under the block grant program for any or all of the costs relating to the purchase of armor vests, but did not, or does not expect to use such funds for such purpose.
(d)If an application under this section is submitted in conjunction with a transaction for the purchase of armor vests, grant amounts under this section may not be used to fund any portion of that purchase unless, before the application is submitted, the applicant—
(1)receives clear and conspicuous notice that receipt of the grant amounts requested in the application is uncertain; and
(2)expressly assumes the obligation to carry out the transaction, regardless of whether such amounts are received.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

References in Text

The Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1998, referred to in subsec. (c), is Pub. L. 105–119, Nov. 26, 1997, 111 Stat. 2440. Provisions under the heading “Violent Crime Reduction Programs, State and Local Law

Enforcement

Assistance”, 111 Stat. 2452, are not classified to the Code. Codification Section was formerly classified to section 3796ll–1 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

Amendments

2000—Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 106–517 added subsec. (d).

Transfer of Functions

Effective Aug. 1, 2000, all functions of Director of Bureau of Justice Assistance, other than those enumerated in section 10142(3) through (6) of this title, transferred to Assistant Attorney General for Office of Justice Programs, see section 1000(a)(1) [title I, § 108(b)] of Pub. L. 106–113, set out as a note under section 10141 of this title.

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Citation

34 U.S.C. § 10532

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Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73