Title 25 — Indians
Chapter 15 — Constitutional Rights of Indians
§ 1324. Amendment of State constitutions or statutes to remove legal impediment; effective date
Statutory text
Notwithstanding the provisions of any enabling Act for the admission of a State, the consent of the United States is hereby given to the people of any State to amend, where necessary, their State constitution or existing statutes, as the case may be, to remove any legal impediment to the assumption of civil or criminal jurisdiction in accordance with the provisions of this subchapter. The provisions of this subchapter shall not become effective with respect to such assumption of jurisdiction by any such State until the people thereof have appropriately amended their State constitution or statutes, as the case may be.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Pub. L. 90–284 title IV § 404 · 82 Stat. 73
Enacted · 25 U.S.C. § 1324
(Pub. L. 90–284, title IV, § 404, Apr. 11, 1968, 82 Stat. 79.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 90–284, title IV, § 404, Apr. 11, 1968, 82 Stat. 79.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 404. consent to amend state laws Notwithstanding the provisions of any enabling Act for the admission of a State, the consent of the United States is hereby given to the people of any State to amend, where necessary, their State constitution or existing statutes, as the case may be, to remove any legal impediment to the assumption of civil or criminal jurisdiction in accordance with the provisions of this title. The provisions of this title shall not become effective with respect to such assumption of jurisdiction by any such State until the people thereof have appropriately amended their State constitution or statutes, as the case may be.
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