---
kind: "section"
citation: "25 U.S.C. § 253"
title: "25"
title_heading: "Indians"
number: "253"
heading: "Wines for sacramental purposes"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/25/253"
units:
  - "Chapter 6 — Government of Indian Country and Reservations"
  - "Subchapter II — Traffic in Intoxicating Liquors"
---

# §253. Wines for sacramental purposes


It shall not be unlawful to introduce and use wines solely for sacramental purposes, under church authority, at any place within the Indian country or any Indian reservation, including the Pueblo Reservations in New Mexico.


## Source credit

(Aug. 24, 1912, ch. 388, § 1, 37 Stat. 519.)