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type: "LegalText"
title: "34 U.S.C. § 40503"
description: "Use of funds"
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title_number: 34
title_name: "CRIME CONTROL AND LAW ENFORCEMENT"
chapter_number: "405"
chapter_name: "REPORTING OF UNIDENTIFIED AND MISSING PERSONS"
section: "40503"
citation: "34 U.S.C. § 40503"
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release_date: "2026-06-26"
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# 34 U.S.C. § 40503 - Use of funds
## Text
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.
(Pub. L. 106177, title II, § 205, as added Pub. L. 116277, § 2(a)(3), Dec. 31, 2020, 134 Stat. 3369.)
## Notes
Editorial Notes
Prior ProvisionsA prior section 40503, Pub. L. 106177, title II, § 204, Mar. 10, 2000, 114 Stat. 36, 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 Pub. L. 116277, § 2(a)(3), Dec. 31, 2020, 134 Stat. 3369. Such section was formerly classified to section 14663 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as section 40503.