---
kind: "section"
citation: "18 U.S.C. § 1167"
title: "18"
title_heading: "Crimes and Criminal Procedure"
number: "1167"
heading: "Theft from gaming establishments on Indian lands"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/18/1167"
units:
  - "Part I — Crimes"
  - "Chapter 53 — Indians"
---

# §1167. Theft from gaming establishments on Indian lands

- (a) [Whoever](/usc/18/921.md?p=a-1) abstracts, purloins, willfully misapplies, or takes and carries away with intent to steal, any money, funds, or other property of a value of $1,000 or less belonging to an establishment operated by or for or licensed by an [Indian tribe](/usc/18/841.md?p=t) pursuant to an ordinance or resolution approved by the National Indian Gaming Commission shall be fined under this title or be imprisoned for not more than one year, or both.
- (b) [Whoever](/usc/18/921.md?p=a-1) abstracts, purloins, willfully misapplies, or takes and carries away with intent to steal, any money, funds, or other property of a value in excess of $1,000 belonging to a gaming establishment operated by or for or licensed by an [Indian tribe](/usc/18/841.md?p=t) pursuant to an ordinance or resolution approved by the National Indian Gaming Commission shall be fined under this title, or imprisoned for not more than ten years, or both.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 100–497, § 23, Oct. 17, 1988, 102 Stat. 2487; amended Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(S), (U), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2148.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1994—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 103–322, § 330016(1)(S), substituted “fined under this title” for “fined not more than $100,000”.

Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 103–322, § 330016(1)(U), substituted “fined under this title” for “fined not more than $250,000”.