§ 1071. — Per capita payments to enrolled tribal members; tax exemption.
[Laws in effect as of January 7, 2003]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 7, 2003 and December 19, 2003]
[CITE: 25USC1071]
TITLE 25--INDIANS
CHAPTER 14--MISCELLANEOUS
SUBCHAPTER LI--CONFEDERATED TRIBES OF THE COLVILLE RESERVATION:
DISTRIBUTION OF JUDGMENT FUND
Sec. 1071. Per capita payments to enrolled tribal members; tax
exemption
The funds on deposit in the Treasury of the United States to the
credit of the Colville Tribe, San Poeils-Nespelem Tribe, Okanogan Tribe,
Methow Tribe, and Lake Tribe (certain constituent groups of the
Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation) that were appropriated
to pay a judgment of the Indian Claims Commission dated March 1, 1960,
in docket numbered 181, and the funds which may be deposited in the
Treasury of the United States to the credit of the said constituent
groups or any other constituent groups of the Confederated Tribes of the
Colville Reservation to pay any judgments arising out of claims
presently pending before the Indian Claims Commission and the interest
on said judgments, after payment of attorney fees and expenses, shall be
credited to the account of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville
Reservation and the Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed
to make a per capita distribution from such funds of $350, to the extent
that such funds are available, to each enrolled member of the
Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation. Any part of such funds
distributed per capita to the members of the tribes shall not be subject
to Federal or State income tax.
(Pub. L. 88-551, Aug. 31, 1964, 78 Stat. 755.)
References in Text
The Indian Claims Commission, referred to in text, terminated Sept.
30, 1978. See Codification note set out under former section 70 et seq.
of this title.
Codification
Section was not enacted as part of Pub. L. 92-244, Mar. 9, 1972, 86
Stat. 56, which comprises this subchapter.
Litigation With Yakima Tribes of Indians of the Yakima Reservation
Authority to commence or defend in the United States Court of Claims
an action to determine claims against judgment fund, see sections 609
and 609a of this title.
