Title 34 — Crime Control and Law Enforcement
Part A · Chapter 121 — Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement
§ 12133. “Indian tribe” defined
Statutory text
In this part, “Indian tribe” means a tribe, band, pueblo, nation, or other organized group or community of Indians, including an Alaska Native village (as defined in or established under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (43 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.),1 that is recognized as eligible for the special programs and services provided by the United States to Indians because of their status as Indians.
Footnotes
- 1 So in original. A closing parenthesis probably should precede the comma.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994
Pub. L. 103–322 title III § 30103 · 108 Stat. 1796
Enacted · 34 U.S.C. § 12133
(Pub. L. 103–322, title III, § 30103, Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 1838.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 103–322, title III, § 30103, Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 1838.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
SEC. 30103. DEFINITION. In this subtitle, “Indian tribe” means a tribe, band, pueblo, nation, or other organized group or community of Indians, including an Alaska Native village (as defined in or established under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (43 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.), that is recognized as eligible for the special programs and services provided by the United States to Indians because of their status as Indians.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
References in Text
The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, referred to in text, is Pub. L. 92–203, § 2, , 85 Stat. 688, which is classified generally to chapter 33 (§ 1601 et seq.) of Title 43, Public Lands. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 1601 of Title 43 and Tables.
Codification
Section was formerly classified to section 13743 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.