§ 1163. — Payments to enrollees, heirs or legatees; trust for minors and persons under legal disability; approval of agreement.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 25USC1163]
TITLE 25--INDIANS
CHAPTER 14--MISCELLANEOUS
SUBCHAPTER LVIII--CHEYENNE-ARAPAHO INDIANS OF OKLAHOMA: DISTRIBUTION OF
JUDGMENT FUND
Sec. 1163. Payments to enrollees, heirs or legatees; trust for
minors and persons under legal disability; approval of agreement
The Secretary of the Interior shall distribute remaining funds per
capita to all persons alive on October 31, 1967, whose names appear on
the membership roll of the Cheyenne-Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma or who,
on October 31, 1967, were eligible for membership, hereinafter referred
to as ``enrollees'', as follows:
(a) A share payable to an enrollee not less than eighteen years
of age shall be paid directly in one payment to such enrollee,
except as provided in subsections (b) and (c) of this section;
(b) A share payable to an enrollee dying after October 31, 1967,
shall be distributed to his heirs or legatees upon the filing of
proof of death and inheritance satisfactory to the Secretary of the
Interior, or his authorized representative, whose findings and
determinations upon such proof shall be final and conclusive:
Provided, That if a share of such deceased enrollee, or a portion
thereof, is payable to an heir or legatee under eighteen years of
age or to an heir or legatee under legal disability other than
because of age, the same shall be paid and held in trust pursuant to
subsection (c) of this section;
(c) A share or proportional share payable to an enrollee or
person under eighteen years of age or to an enrollee or person under
legal disability other than because of age shall be paid and held in
trust for such enrollee or person pursuant to a trust agreement to
be made and entered into by and between the Cheyenne-Arapaho Tribes
of Oklahoma, as grantor, and a national banking association located
in the State of Oklahoma, as Trustee, which trust agreement shall be
authorized and approved by the tribal governing body and approved by
the Secretary of the Interior. The Secretary of the Interior is
authorized to approve amendments to trust agreements entered into
pursuant to this subchapter, to permit the distribution of assets
to, and the termination of trusts for, minor beneficiaries, not
under other legal disability, who have attained or who shall
hereafter attain the age of eighteen years.
(Pub. L. 90-117, Sec. 3, Oct. 31, 1967, 81 Stat. 337; Pub. L. 92-439,
Sept. 29, 1972, 86 Stat. 742.)
Amendments
1972--Pub. L. 92-439 lowered period of minority from twenty-one to
eighteen years of age in subsecs. (a) to (c), qualified the legal
disability in subsecs. (b) and (c) to a disability other than one of
age, and provided for subsec. (c) authorization of amendments to trust
agreements, distribution of assets, and termination of trusts for
beneficiaries eighteen years of age without any other legal disability.
