---
kind: "section"
citation: "25 C.F.R. § 11.454"
title: "25"
number: "11.454"
heading: "Domestic violence."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/25/11.454"
---

# §11.454. Domestic violence.

- (a) A person who commits domestic violence by inflicting physical harm, bodily injury, or sexual assault, or inflicting the fear of imminent physical harm, bodily injury, or sexual assault on a family member, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
- (b) **For purposes of this section, a family member is any of the following—**
  - (1) A spouse;
  - (2) A former spouse;
  - (3) A person related by blood;
  - (4) A person related by existing or prior marriage;
  - (5) A person who resides or resided with the defendant;
  - (6) A person with whom the defendant has a child in common; or
  - (7) **A person with whom the defendant is or was in a dating or intimate relationship.**

## Notes

### Amendments

[73 FR 39861, July 11, 2008]

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 301; R.S. 463, 25 U.S.C. 2; R.S. 465, 25 U.S.C. 9; 42 Stat. 208, 25 U.S.C. 13; 38 Stat. 586, 25 U.S.C. 200.

### Source

Source: 58 FR 54411, Oct. 21, 1993, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[73 FR 39861, July 11, 2008]