§ 1300n-4. — Membership rolls.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 25USC1300n-4]
TITLE 25--INDIANS
CHAPTER 14--MISCELLANEOUS
SUBCHAPTER LXXXV--GRATON RANCHERIA RESTORATION
Sec. 1300n-4. Membership rolls
(a) Compilation of tribal membership roll
Not later than 1 year after December 27, 2000, the Secretary shall,
after consultation with the Tribe, compile a membership roll of the
Tribe.
(b) Criteria for membership
(1) Until a tribal constitution is adopted under section 1300n-6 of
this title, an individual shall be placed on the Graton membership roll
if such individual is living, is not an enrolled member of another
federally recognized Indian tribe, and if--
(A) such individual's name was listed on the Graton Indian
Rancheria distribution list compiled by the Bureau of Indian Affairs
and approved by the Secretary on September 17, 1959, under Public
Law 85-671;
(B) such individual was not listed on the Graton Indian
Rancheria distribution list, but met the requirements that had to be
met to be listed on the Graton Indian Rancheria distribution list;
(C) such individual is identified as an Indian from the Graton,
Marshall, Bodega, Tomales, or Sebastopol, California, vicinities, in
documents prepared by or at the direction of the Bureau of Indian
Affairs, or in any other public or California mission records; or
(D) such individual is a lineal descendant of an individual,
living or dead, identified in subparagraph (A), (B), or (C).
(2) After adoption of a tribal constitution under section 1300n-6 of
this title, such tribal constitution shall govern membership in the
Tribe.
(c) Conclusive proof of Graton Indian ancestry
For the purpose of subsection (b) of this section, the Secretary
shall accept any available evidence establishing Graton Indian ancestry.
The Secretary shall accept as conclusive evidence of Graton Indian
ancestry information contained in the census of the Indians from the
Graton, Marshall, Bodega, Tomales, or Sebastopol, California,
vicinities, prepared by or at the direction of Special Indian Agent John
J. Terrell in any other roll or census of Graton Indians prepared by or
at the direction of the Bureau of Indian Affairs and in the Graton
Indian Rancheria distribution list compiled by the Bureau of Indian
Affairs and approved by the Secretary on September 17, 1959.
(Pub. L. 106-568, title XIV, Sec. 1406, Dec. 27, 2000, 114 Stat. 2940.)
References in Text
Public Law 85-671, referred to in subsec. (b)(1)(A), is Pub. L. 85-
671, Aug. 18, 1958, 72 Stat. 619, which is not classified to the Code.
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in sections 1300n-1, 1300n-5, 1300n-6 of
this title.
