---
kind: "section"
citation: "25 U.S.C. § 253"
title: "25"
title_heading: "Indians"
number: "253"
heading: "Wines for sacramental purposes"
release: "119-102"
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](/usc/25/1934.md) country or any [Indian reservation](/usc/25/2902.md?p=8), including the Pueblo [Reservations](/usc/25/2902.md?p=8) in New Mexico.


## Source credit

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