Title 25 — Indians
Chapter 38A — Indian Tribal Justice Technical and Legal Assistance
§ 3665. 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 fora;
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 Technical and Legal Assistance Act of 2000
Pub. L. 106–559 title I § 105 · 114 Stat. 2778
Enacted · 25 U.S.C. § 3665
(Pub. L. 106–559, title I, § 105, Dec. 21, 2000, 114 Stat. 2781.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 106–559, title I, § 105, Dec. 21, 2000, 114 Stat. 2781.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
SEC. 105. 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 fora; (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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