Native American Grave Protection and Repatriation Act
CHANGES IN EXISTING LAW
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TITLE 18, UNITED STATES CODE
CHAPTER 53. INDIANS
Section 1151. Indian country defined
Illegal Trafficking in Native American Human Remains and
Cultural Items
(a) Whoever knowingly sells, purchases, used for
profit, or
transports for sale or profit, the human remains of a
Native American
without the right of possession to those remains, as
provided in the
Native American Grave Protection and Repatriation Act,
shall be fined
in accordance with this title, or imprisoned not more than
12 months,
both, and in the case of a second or subsequent violation,
be fined
in accordance with this title, or imprisoned not more than
5 years,
or both.
(b) Whoever knowingly sells, purchases, uses for
profit, or
transports for sale or profit any Native American
cultural items
obtained in violation of the Native American Grave
Protection and
Repatriation Act shall be fined in accordance with
this title,
imprisoned not more than one year, or both, and in the
case of a
second or subsequent violation, be fined in accordance
with this
title, imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both.
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