Volume 86
Public Law 92–438
To provide for the disposition of funds appropriated to pay a judgment in favor of the Havasupai Tribe of Indians in Indian Claims Commission docket numbered 91, and for other purposes.
Approved September 29, 1972
Statutory text
AN ACT
To provide for the disposition of funds appropriated to pay a judgment in favor of the Havasupai Tribe of Indians in Indian Claims Commission docket numbered 91, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the funds appropriated by the Act of December 26, 1969 (83 Stat. 447), to pay a judgment to the Havasupai Tribe in Indian Claims Commission docket numbered 91, together with interest thereon, after payment of attorney fees and litigation expenses, may be advanced, expended, invested, or reinvested for any purpose that is authorized by the tribal governing body and approved by the Secretary of the Interior.
Sec. 2.
None of the funds distributed per capita under the provisions
Tax exemption.
of this Act shall be subject to Federal or State income taxes.
Sec. 3.
Sums payable to adult living enrollees or to adult heirs or legatees of deceased enrollees shall be paid directly to such persons. Sums payable to enrollees or their heirs or legatees who are less than
Minor enrollees, protection of interests.
eighteen years of age or who are under legal disability shall be paid in accordance with such procedures, including the establishment of trusts, as the Secretary determines appropriate to protect the best interests of such persons.
Sec. 4.
The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to prescribe rules
Rules and regulations.
and regulations to effect the provisions of this Act.
Approved September 29, 1972.