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§11171 Grants and Projects

Title 34 › Subtitle I — Comprehensive Acts › CHAPTER 111 — JUVENILE JUSTICE AND DELINQUENCY PREVENTION › SUBCHAPTER II — PROGRAMS AND OFFICES › Part E — Developing, Testing, and Demonstrating Promising New Initiatives and Programs › § 11171

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Administrator can give grants or contracts to states, local and tribal governments, public or private agencies, organizations, or individuals to develop, test, or show programs that prevent or reduce juvenile delinquency. The Administrator must try to spread grants fairly across the United States. Grants can cover all or part of a project's costs.

Full Legal Text

Title 34, §11171

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(a)Authority to make grants
The Administrator may make grants to and contracts with States, units of general local government, Indian tribal governments, public and private agencies, organizations, and individuals, or combinations thereof, to carry out projects for the development, testing, and demonstration of promising initiatives and programs for the prevention, control, or reduction of juvenile delinquency. The Administrator shall ensure that, to the extent reasonable and practicable, such grants are made to achieve an equitable geographical distribution of such projects throughout the United States.
(b)Use of grants
A grant made under subsection (a) may be used to pay all or part of the cost of the project for which such grant is made.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Codification Section was formerly classified to section 5665 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

Prior Provisions

A prior section 261 of title II of Pub. L. 93–415, as added Pub. L. 100–690, title VII, § 7263(a)(2)(F), Nov. 18, 1988, 102 Stat. 4443; amended Pub. L. 102–586, § 2(g)(7), Nov. 4, 1992, 106 Stat. 5000, related to authority to make grants and contracts, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 107–273, div. C, title II, § 12210(1), Nov. 2, 2002, 116 Stat. 1880. Another prior section 261 of Pub. L. 93–415 was renumbered section 299 and was classified to section 11181 of this title, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 115–385, title IV, § 402(c)(1), Dec. 21, 2018, 132 Stat. 5160.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

Part effective on the first day of the first fiscal year that begins after Nov. 2, 2002, and applicable only with respect to fiscal years beginning on or after the first day of the first fiscal year that begins after Nov. 2, 2002, see section 12223 of Pub. L. 107–273, set out as an

Effective Date

of 2002 Amendment note under section 11101 of this title.

Reference

Citations & Metadata

Citation

34 U.S.C. § 11171

Title 34, Navy

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110