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    18 USC Sec. 1152                                            01/05/2009

EXPCITE

    TITLE 18 - CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
    PART I - CRIMES
    CHAPTER 53 - INDIANS

HEAD

    Sec. 1152. Laws governing

STATUTE

      Except as otherwise expressly provided by law, the general laws
    of the United States as to the punishment of offenses committed in
    any place within the sole and exclusive jurisdiction of the United
    States, except the District of Columbia, shall extend to the Indian
    country.
      This section shall not extend to offenses committed by one Indian
    against the person or property of another Indian, nor to any Indian
    committing any offense in the Indian country who has been punished
    by the local law of the tribe, or to any case where, by treaty
    stipulations, the exclusive jurisdiction over such offenses is or
    may be secured to the Indian tribes respectively.

SOURCE

    (June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 757.)

HISTORICAL AND REVISION NOTES

      Based on sections 215, 217, 218 of title 25, U.S.C., 1940 ed.,
    Indians (R.S. 2144, 2145, 2146; Feb. 18, 1875, ch. 80, Secs. 1, 18
    Stat. 318).
      Section consolidates said sections 217 and 218 of title 25,
    U.S.C., 1940 ed., Indians, and omits section 215 of said title as
    covered by the consolidation.
      See reviser's note under section 1153 of this title as to effect
    of consolidation of sections 548 and 549 of title 18, U.S.C., 1940
    ed.
      Minor changes were made in translations and phraseology.