Title 25 — Indians
Chapter 24 — Indian Land Consolidation
§ 2208. Conveyancing authority upon sale or exchange of tribal lands; removal of trust status of individually owned lands
Statutory text
The Secretary shall have the authority to issue deeds, patents, or such other instruments of conveyance needed to effectuate a sale or exchange of tribal lands made pursuant to the terms of this chapter and to remove, at the request of an Indian owner, the trust status of individually held lands or interests therein, where authorized by law.
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.
Indian Land Consolidation Act
Pub. L. 97–459 title II § 209 · 96 Stat. 2515
Enacted · 25 U.S.C. § 2208
(Pub. L. 97–459, title II, § 209, Jan. 12, 1983, 96 Stat. 2519.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 97–459, title II, § 209, Jan. 12, 1983, 96 Stat. 2519.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 209. The Secretary shall have the authority to issue deeds, Deeds or patents, issuance. 25 USC 2208. patents, or such other instruments of conveyance needed to effectuate a sale or exchange of tribal lands made pursuant to the terms of this title and to remove, at the request of an Indian owner, the trust status of individually held lands or interests therein, where authorized by law.
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