§ 883a. — Payment of allotments.
[Laws in effect as of January 7, 2003]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 7, 2003 and December 19, 2003]
[CITE: 25USC883a]
TITLE 25--INDIANS
CHAPTER 14--MISCELLANEOUS
SUBCHAPTER XXXIX--INDIANS OF OKLAHOMA
Sec. 883a. Payment of allotments
(a) Living original allottees
Except as provided in subsections (b) and (c) of this section, a
share or proportional share payable to a living original Osage allottee
shall be paid to such allottee.
(b) Distribution to heirs; heirship determinations; intestate
succession; finality of determinations and distributions;
reversion of minimal amounts
A share of a deceased Osage allottee having died prior to or after
October 27, 1972, shall be distributed to his heirs of Osage Indian
blood pursuant to an order determining heirs by the Secretary of the
Interior or a court of competent jurisdiction of the State of Oklahoma,
and such distributions by the Secretary of the Interior shall be final
and conclusive. In the event the heirs of Osage Indian blood of an Osage
Indian having died prior to or after October 27, 1972, have not been
determined by the Secretary of the Interior or a court of competent
jurisdiction of the State of Oklahoma, such share shall be distributed
to the heirs of Osage Indian blood upon the filing of proof of death and
inheritance in accordance with the Oklahoma law of intestate succession
in a form satisfactory to the Secretary of the Interior whose findings
and determinations upon such proof shall be final and conclusive:
Provided, That when a person of Osage Indian blood receives an amount
totaling less than $20 from one or more shares of one or more Osage
allottees, that amount shall not be distributed to the individual, but
will revert to the Osage Tribe.
(c) Minors and persons under guardianship; rules and regulations
A share or proportional share payable to a person of Osage Indian
blood under eighteen years of age and any person under guardianship
pursuant to an order of a court of competent jurisdiction
notwithstanding the fact he has received a certificate of competency
shall be disbursed under rules and regulations to be prescribed by the
Secretary of the Interior.
(Pub. L. 92-586, Sec. 2, Oct. 27, 1972, 86 Stat. 1295.)
