[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 25, Volume 1]

[Revised as of April 1, 2005]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 25CFR11.315]



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                            TITLE 25--INDIANS

 

     CHAPTER I--BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

 

PART 11_LAW AND ORDER ON INDIAN RESERVATIONS--Table of Contents

 

                      Subpart C_Criminal Procedure

 

Sec.  11.315  Sentencing.



    (a) Any person who has been convicted in a Court of Indian Offenses 

of



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a criminal offense under the regulations of this part may be sentenced 

to one or a combination of the following penalties:

    (1) Imprisonment for a period not to exceed the maximum permitted by 

the section defining the offense, which in no case shall be greater than 

six months.

    (2) A money fine in an amount not to exceed the maximum permitted by 

the section defining the offense, which in no case shall be greater than 

five hundred dollars ($500).

    (3) Labor for the benefit of the tribe.

    (4) Rehabilitative measures.

    (b) In addition to or in lieu of the penalties provided in paragraph 

(a) of this section, the court may require a convicted offender who has 

inflicted injury upon the person or property of another to make 

restitution or compensate the injured person by means of the surrender 

of property, payment of money damages, or the performance of any other 

act for the benefit of the injured party.

    (c) If, solely because of indigence, a convicted offender is unable 

to pay forthwith a money fine assessed under any applicable section, the 

court shall allow him or her a reasonable period of time to pay the 

entire sum or allow him or her to make reasonable installment payments 

to the clerk of the court at specified intervals until the entire sum is 

paid. If the offender defaults on such payments the court may find him 

or her in contempt of court and imprison him or her accordingly.