§ 1300i-10. — Special considerations.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 25USC1300i-10]
TITLE 25--INDIANS
CHAPTER 14--MISCELLANEOUS
SUBCHAPTER LXXX--HOOPA-YUROK SETTLEMENT
Sec. 1300i-10. Special considerations
(a) Estate for Smokers family
The 20 acre land assignment on the Hoopa Valley Reservation made by
the Hoopa Area Field Office of the Bureau of Indian Affairs on August
25, 1947, to the Smokers family shall continue in effect and may pass by
descent or devise to any blood relative or relatives of one-fourth or
more Indian blood of those family members domiciled on the assignment on
October 31, 1988.
(b) Rancheria merger with Yurok Tribe
If a majority of the adult members of any of the following
Rancherias at Resighini, Trinidad, or Big Lagoon, vote to merge with the
Yurok Tribe in an election which shall be conducted by the Secretary
within ninety days after October 31, 1988, the tribes and reservations
of those rancherias so voting shall be extinguished and the lands and
members of such reservations shall be part of the Yurok Reservation with
the unallotted trust land therein held in trust by the United States for
the Yurok Tribe: Provided, however, That the existing governing
documents and the elected governing bodies of any rancherias voting to
merge shall continue in effect until the election of the Interim Council
pursuant to section 1300i-8 of this title. The Secretary shall publish
in the Federal Register a notice of the effective date of the merger.
(c) Preservation of leasehold and assignment rights of rancheria
residents
Real property on any rancheria that merges with the Yurok
Reservation pursuant to subsection (b) of this section that is, on
October 31, 1988, held by any individual under a lease shall continue to
be governed by the terms of the lease, and any land assignment existing
on October 31, 1988, shall continue in effect and may pass by descent or
devise to any blood relative or relatives of Indian blood of the
assignee.
(Pub. L. 100-580, Sec. 11, Oct. 31, 1988, 102 Stat. 2935.)
