Title 25 — Indians
Chapter 38 — Indian Tribal Justice Support
§ 3631. Tribal authority
Statutory text
Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to—
encroach upon or diminish in any way the inherent sovereign authority of each tribal government to determine the role of the tribal justice system within the tribal government or to enact and enforce tribal laws;
diminish in any way the authority of tribal governments to appoint personnel;
impair the rights of each tribal government to determine the nature of its own legal system or the appointment of authority within the tribal government;
alter in any way any tribal traditional dispute resolution forum;
imply that any tribal justice system is an instrumentality of the United States; or
diminish the trust responsibility of the United States to Indian tribal governments and tribal justice systems of such governments.
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 Tribal Justice Act
Pub. L. 103–176 title III § 301 · 107 Stat. 2004
Enacted · 25 U.S.C. § 3631
(Pub. L. 103–176, title III, § 301, Dec. 3, 1993, 107 Stat. 2009.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 103–176, title III, § 301, Dec. 3, 1993, 107 Stat. 2009.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
SEC. 301. TRIBAL AUTHORITY. Nothing in this Act shall be construed to— (1) encroach upon or diminish in any way the inherent sovereign authority of each tribal government to determine the role of the tribal justice system within the tribal government or to enact and enforce tribal laws; (2) diminish in any way the authority of tribal governments to appoint personnel; (3) impair the rights of each tribal government to determine the nature of its own legal system or the appointment of authority within the tribal government; (4) alter in any way any tribal traditional dispute resolution forum; (5) imply that any tribal justice system is an instrumentality of the United States; or (6) diminish the trust responsibility of the United States to Indian tribal governments and tribal justice systems of such governments.
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