§ 677g. — Membership rolls of fullblood and mixedblood members; preparation and initial publication; appeal from inclusion or omission from rolls; finality of determination; final publication; inheritable interest; future membership.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 25USC677g]
TITLE 25--INDIANS
CHAPTER 14--MISCELLANEOUS
SUBCHAPTER XXVIII--UTE INDIANS OF UTAH: DISTRIBUTION OF ASSETS BETWEEN
MIXED-BLOOD AND FULL-BLOOD MEMBERS; TERMINATION OF FEDERAL SUPERVISION
OVER PROPERTY OF MIXED-BLOOD MEMBERS
Sec. 677g. Membership rolls of full-blood and mixed-blood
members; preparation and initial publication; appeal from
inclusion or omission from rolls; finality of determination;
final publication; inheritable interest; future membership
The tribe shall have a period of thirty days from August 27, 1954 in
which to prepare and submit to the Secretary a proposed roll of the
full-blood members of the tribe, and a proposed roll of the mixed-blood
members of the tribe, living on August 27, 1954. If the tribe fails to
submit such proposed rolls within the time specified in this subchapter,
the Secretary shall prepare such proposed rolls for the tribe. Said
proposed rolls shall be published in the Federal Register, and in a
newspaper of general circulation in each of the counties of Uintah and
Duchesne in the State of Utah. Any person claiming membership rights in
the tribe, or an interest in its assets, or a representative of the
Secretary on behalf of any such person, within sixty days from the date
of publication in the Federal Register, or in either of the papers of
general circulation, as hereinbefore provided, whichever publication
date is last, may file an appeal with the Secretary contesting the
inclusion or omission of the name of any person on or from either of
such proposed rolls. The Secretary shall review such appeals and his
decisions thereon shall be final and conclusive. After disposition of
all such appeals to the Secretary, and after all transfers have been
made pursuant to section 677c of this title the roll of the full-blood
members of the tribe, and the roll of the mixed-blood members of the
tribe, shall be published in the Federal Register, and such rolls shall
be final for the purposes of this subchapter, but said sections shall
not be construed as granting any inheritable interest in tribal assets
to full-blood members of the tribe or as preventing future membership in
the tribe, after August 27, 1954, in the manner provided in the
constitution and bylaws of the tribe.
(Aug. 27, 1954, ch. 1009, Sec. 8, 68 Stat. 869; Aug. 2, 1956, ch. 880,
Sec. 2, 70 Stat. 936.)
Amendments
1956--Act Aug. 2, 1956, prohibited constructions of this subchapter
granting inheritable interest in tribal assets to full-blood members of
the tribe or preventing future membership in the tribe in accordance
with its constitution and bylaws.
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in sections 677c, 677d, 677i of this
title.
