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Title 25 — Indians

Chapter 4 — Performance by United States of Obligations to Indians

§ 165. Notice to Congressional committees

Statutory text

The Secretary shall not restore to tribal ownership or deposit in the general fund of the Treasury any funds pursuant to section 164 of this title and this section until sixty calendar days (exclusive of days on which either the Senate or the House of Representatives is not in session because of an adjournment of more than three days to a day certain) after he has submitted notice of his proposed action to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate and the Committee on Natural Resources of the House of Representatives unless each of said committees has theretofore notified him that it has no objection to the proposed action.

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.

  1. Pub. L. 87–283 § 2 · 75 Stat. 584

    Enacted · 25 U.S.C. § 165

    Pub. L. 87–283, § 2, Sept. 22, 1961, 75 Stat. 584

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Pub. L. 87–283, § 2, Sept. 22, 1961, 75 Stat. 584

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 2. The Secretary shall not restore to tribal ownership or deposit in the general fund of the Treasury any funds pursuant to this Act until sixty calendar days (exclusive of days on which either the Senate or the House of Representatives is not in session because of an adjournment of more than three days to a day certain) after he has Notice to congressional committees. submitted notice of his proposed action to the Committees on Interior and Insular Affairs of the Senate and House of Representatives unless each of said committees has theretofore notified him that it has no objection to the proposed action.

  2. Pub. L. 103–437 § 10(b) · 108 Stat. 4581

    Substituted · 25 U.S.C. § 165

    Pub. L. 103–437 substituted “Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate and the Committee on Natural Resources of the House of Representatives” for “Committees on Interior and Insular Affairs of the Senate and the House of Representatives”

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Pub. L. 103–437 substituted “Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate and the Committee on Natural Resources of the House of Representatives” for “Committees on Interior and Insular Affairs of the Senate and the House of Representatives”.

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (b) Section 2 of the Act of September 22, 1961 (25 U.S.C. 165), is amended by striking “Committees on Interior and Insular Affairs of the Senate and House of Representatives” and substituting “Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate and the Committee on Natural Resources of the House of Representatives”.

2 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

Amendments

1994—Pub. L. 103–437 substituted “Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate and the Committee on Natural Resources of the House of Representatives” for “Committees on Interior and Insular Affairs of the Senate and the House of Representatives”.

Credits

1961–1994 · 2 acts
  1. 1961Pub. L. 87–283, § 2, , 75 Stat. 584
  2. 1994Pub. L. 103–437, § 10(b), , 108 Stat. 4589.
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(Pub. L. 87–283, § 2, , 75 Stat. 584; Pub. L. 103–437, § 10(b), , 108 Stat. 4589.)

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