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Title 25 — Indians

Chapter 46 — Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance

§ 5332. Sovereign immunity and trusteeship rights unaffected

Statutory text

Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as—

(1)

affecting, modifying, diminishing, or otherwise impairing the sovereign immunity from suit enjoyed by an Indian tribe; or

(2)

authorizing or requiring the termination of any existing trust responsibility of the United States with respect to the Indian people.

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 Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act

    Pub. L. 93–638 title I § 111 · 88 Stat. 2204

    Enacted · 25 U.S.C. § 5332

    Pub. L. 93–638, title I, § 111, formerly § 110, Jan. 4, 1975, 88 Stat. 2213

    Target inherited from the preceding amendment note.

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Pub. L. 93–638, title I, § 111, formerly § 110, Jan. 4, 1975, 88 Stat. 2213

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 110. effect on existing rights Nothing in this Act shall be construed as— 25 USC 450n. (1) affecting, modifying, diminishing, or otherwise impairing the sovereign immunity from suit enjoyed by an Indian tribe; or (2) authorizing or requiring the termination of any existing trust responsibility of the United States with respect to the Indian people.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

References in Text

This chapter, referred to in text, was in the original “this Act”, meaning Pub. L. 93–638, , 88 Stat. 2203, known as the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act, which is classified principally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 5301 of this title and Tables.

Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 450n of this title prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

Credits

1975–1988 · 2 acts
  1. 1975Pub. L. 93–638, title I, § 111, formerly § 110, , 88 Stat. 2213
  2. 1988renumbered § 111, Pub. L. 100–472, title II, § 206(b), , 102 Stat. 2295.
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(Pub. L. 93–638, title I, § 111, formerly § 110, , 88 Stat. 2213; renumbered § 111, Pub. L. 100–472, title II, § 206(b), , 102 Stat. 2295.)

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