§ 14. — Money accruing to Indians from Department of Veterans Affairs or other governmental agencies.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 25USC14]
TITLE 25--INDIANS
CHAPTER 1--BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS
Sec. 14. Money accruing to Indians from Department of Veterans
Affairs or other governmental agencies
Any money accruing from the Department of Veterans Affairs or other
governmental agency to incompetent adult Indians, or minor Indians, who
are recognized wards of the Federal Government, for whom no legal
guardians or other fiduciaries have been appointed may be paid, in the
discretion of the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, or other head of a
governmental bureau or agency, having such funds for payment, to such
superintendent or other bonded officer of the Indian Service as the
Secretary of the Interior shall designate, for the use of such
beneficiaries, or to be paid to or used for, the heirs of such deceased
beneficiaries, to be handled and accounted for by him with other moneys
under his control, in accordance with existing law and the regulations
of the Department of the Interior.
(Feb. 25, 1933, ch. 124, 47 Stat. 907; Pub. L. 102-54, Sec. 13(j)(1),
June 13, 1991, 105 Stat. 276.)
Amendments
1991--Pub. L. 102-54 substituted ``Department of Veterans Affairs''
for ``Veterans' Administration'' and ``Secretary of Veterans Affairs''
for ``Administrator of Veterans' Affairs''.
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.
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in title 38 section 1983.
