Volume 86
Public Law 92–485
To extend the time for commencing actions on behalf of an Indian tribe, band, or group.
Approved October 13, 1972
Statutory text
AN ACT
To extend the time for commencing actions on behalf of an Indian tribe, band, or group.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That title 28 of the United States Code, section 2415, is amended as follows:
The period at the end of subsection (a) shall be changed to a colon, and the following provision shall be added thereto: “Provided, further, That an action for money damages which accrued on the date of enactment of this Act in accordance with subsection (g) brought by the United States for or on behalf of a recognized tribe, band, or group of American Indians, or on behalf of an individual Indian whose hind is held in trust or restricted status, shall not be barred unless the complaint is filed more than eleven years after the right of action accrued or more than two years after a final decision has been rendered in applicable administrative proceedings required by contract or by law. whichever is later.”.
In subsection (b), the period at the end of the subsection shall be changed to a comma, and the following words shall be added thereto: “except that such actions for or on behalf of a recognized tribe, band, or group of American Indians, including actions relating to allotted trust or restricted Indian lands, or on behalf of an individual Indian whose land is held in trust or restricted status which accrued on the date of enactment of this Act in accordance with subsection (g) may be brought within eleven years after the right of action accrues,”.
Approved October 13, 1972.