25 U.S.C. § 232 — Jurisdiction of New York State over offenses committed on reservations within State

This section is a single provision with one proviso attached. The State of New York has jurisdiction over crimes committed by or against Indians on Indian reservations within New York, to the same extent its courts have jurisdiction over crimes committed anywhere else in the state, as defined by state law. The proviso limits that grant of jurisdiction: nothing in this section takes away any Indian tribe's, band's, or community's — or their members' — hunting and fishing rights guaranteed by agreement, treaty, or custom, and nothing in this section requires them to get state fish and game licenses to exercise those rights.