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Title 25 — Indians

Chapter 24 — Indian Land Consolidation

§ 2207. Full faith and credit to tribal actions under tribal ordinances limiting descent and distribution of trust or restricted or controlled lands

Statutory text

The Secretary in carrying out his responsibility to regulate the descent and distribution of trust lands under section 372 of this title, and other laws, shall give full faith and credit to any tribal actions taken pursuant to subsections (a) and (b) of section 2205 of this title, which provision shall apply only to estates of decedent’s whose deaths occur on or after the effective date of tribal ordinances adopted pursuant to this chapter.

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. Indian Land Consolidation Act

    Pub. L. 97–459 title II § 208 · 96 Stat. 2515

    Enacted · 25 U.S.C. § 2207

    Pub. L. 97–459, title II, § 208, Jan. 12, 1983, 96 Stat. 2519

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Pub. L. 97–459, title II, § 208, Jan. 12, 1983, 96 Stat. 2519

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 208. The Secretary in carrying out his responsibility to 25 USC 2207. regulate the descent and distribution of trust lands under section 1 of the Act of June 25, 1910 (36 Stat. 855; 25 U.S.C. 372) as amended, and other laws, shall give full faith and credit to any tribal actions taken pursuant to section 206 of this title, which provision shall apply only to estates of decedent’s whose deaths occur on or after the effective date of tribal ordinances adopted pursuant to this title.

  2. Indian Land Consolidation Act Amendments of 2000

    Pub. L. 106–462 title I § 103(5) · 114 Stat. 1991

    Substituted · 25 U.S.C. § 2207

    Pub. L. 106–462 substituted “subsections (a) and (b) of section 2205” for “section 2205”

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Pub. L. 106–462 substituted “subsections (a) and (b) of section 2205” for “section 2205”.

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (5) in section 208, by striking “section 206” and inserting “subsections (a) and (b) of section 206”; and

2 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

Amendments

2000—Pub. L. 106–462 substituted “subsections (a) and (b) of section 2205” for “section 2205”.

Credits

1983–2000 · 2 acts
  1. 1983Pub. L. 97–459, title II, § 208, , 96 Stat. 2519
  2. 2000Pub. L. 106–462, title I, § 103(5), , 114 Stat. 1999.
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(Pub. L. 97–459, title II, § 208, , 96 Stat. 2519; Pub. L. 106–462, title I, § 103(5), , 114 Stat. 1999.)

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