Title 25 — Indians
Chapter 15 — Constitutional Rights of Indians
§ 1331. Approval
Statutory text
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, if any application made by an Indian, Indian tribe, Indian council, or any band or group of Indians under any law requiring the approval of the Secretary of the Interior or the Commissioner of Indian Affairs of contracts or agreements relating to the employment of legal counsel (including the choice of counsel and the fixing of fees) by any such Indians, tribe, council, band, or group is neither granted nor denied within ninety days following the making of such application, such approval shall be deemed to have been granted.
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 VI § 601 · 82 Stat. 73
Enacted · 25 U.S.C. § 1331
(Pub. L. 90–284, title VI, § 601, Apr. 11, 1968, 82 Stat. 80.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 90–284, title VI, § 601, Apr. 11, 1968, 82 Stat. 80.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 601. approval Notwithstanding any other provision of law, if any application made by an Indian, Indian tribe, Indian council, or any band or group of Indians under any law requiring the approval of the Secretary of the Interior or the. Commissioner of Indian Affairs of contracts or agreements relating to the employment of legal counsel (including the choice of counsel and the fixing of fees) by any such Indians, tribe, council, band, or group is neither granted nor denied within ninety days following the making of such application, such approval shall be deemed to have been granted.
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