§ 501. — Acquisition of agricultural and grazing lands for Indians; title to lands; tax exemption.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 25USC501]
TITLE 25--INDIANS
CHAPTER 14--MISCELLANEOUS
SUBCHAPTER VIII--INDIANS IN OKLAHOMA: PROMOTION OF WELFARE
Sec. 501. Acquisition of agricultural and grazing lands for
Indians; title to lands; tax exemption
The Secretary of the Interior is authorized, in his discretion, to
acquire by purchase, relinquishment, gift, exchange, or assignment, any
interest in lands, water rights, or surface rights to lands, within or
without existing Indian reservations, including trust or otherwise
restricted lands now in Indian ownership: Provided, That such lands
shall be agricultural and grazing lands of good character and quality in
proportion to the respective needs of the particular Indian or Indians
for whom such purchases are made. Title to all lands so acquired shall
be taken in the name of the United States, in trust for the tribe, band,
group, or individual Indian for whose benefit such land is so acquired,
and while the title thereto is held by the United States said lands
shall be free from any and all taxes, save that the State of Oklahoma is
authorized to levy and collect a gross-production tax, not in excess of
the rate applied to production from lands in private ownership, upon all
oil and gas produced from said lands, which said tax the Secretary of
the Interior is authorized and directed to cause to be paid.
(June 26, 1936, ch. 831, Sec. 1, 49 Stat. 1967.)
References to This Section
References to this section in subchapter II of chapter 14 of this
title deemed to include section 82a of this title, see section 458aaa-10
of this title.
Short Title
Act June 26, 1936, ch. 831, 49 Stat. 1967, as amended, which enacted
this subchapter, is popularly known as the ``Oklahoma Welfare Act'' and
the ``Oklahoma Indian Welfare Act''.
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in sections 458aaa-10, 1041e of this
title.
