§ 231. — Enforcement of State laws affecting health and education; entry of State employees on Indian lands.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 25USC231]
TITLE 25--INDIANS
CHAPTER 6--GOVERNMENT OF INDIAN COUNTRY AND RESERVATIONS
SUBCHAPTER I--GENERALLY
Sec. 231. Enforcement of State laws affecting health and
education; entry of State employees on Indian lands
The Secretary of the Interior, under such rules and regulations as
he may prescribe, shall permit the agents and employees of any State to
enter upon Indian tribal lands, reservations, or allotments therein (1)
for the purpose of making inspection of health and educational
conditions and enforcing sanitation and quarantine regulations or (2) to
enforce the penalties of State compulsory school attendance laws against
Indian children, and parents, or other persons in loco parentis except
that this subparagraph (2) shall not apply to Indians of any tribe in
which a duly constituted governing body exists until such body has
adopted a resolution consenting to such application.
(Feb. 15, 1929, ch. 216, 45 Stat. 1185; Aug. 9, 1946, ch. 930, 60 Stat.
962.)
Amendments
1946--Act Aug. 9, 1946, permitted proper State officers to invoke
penalties of State compulsory school attendance against Indian children,
their parents, or other persons in loco parentis.
Transfer of Functions
For transfer of functions of other officers, employees, and agencies
of Department of the Interior, with certain exceptions, to Secretary of
the Interior, with power to delegate, see Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1950,
Secs. 1, 2, eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 3174, 64 Stat. 1262, set out in
the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.
