U.S. Code as of: 01/02/2006
Section 463d - Notes
                                   SOURCE
    (Aug. 10, 1939, ch. 662, Sec. 1, 53 Stat. 1351.)
                            REFERENCES IN TEXT                        
      The public-land laws, referred to in text, are classified
    generally to Title 43, Public Lands.
                 INHERITANCE OF TRUST OR RESTRICTED LANDS             
      Pub. L. 95-264, Apr. 18, 1978, 92 Stat. 202, provided: "That the
    right to inherit trust or restricted land on the Umatilla Indian
    Reservation, to the extent that the laws of descent of the State of
    Oregon are inconsistent herewith, shall be as provided herein.
      "Sec. 2. When any Indian dies leaving any interest in trust or
    restricted land within the Umatilla Reservation and not having
    lawfully devised the same, such interest shall descend in equal
    shares to his or her children and to the issue of any deceased
    child by right of representation; and if there is no child of the
    decedent living at the time of his or her death, such interests
    shall descend to his or her other lineal descendants; and if such
    descendants are in the same degree of kindred to the intestate,
    they shall take such real property equally, or otherwise they shall
    take according to the right of representation. An interest taken
    hereunder shall be subject to the right of a surviving spouse as
    provided in section 3.
      "Sec. 3. The surviving spouse of any Indian who dies leaving any
    interest in trust or restricted land within the Umatilla
    Reservation shall be entitled to obtain a one-half interest in all
    such trust or restricted interests in land during his or her
    lifetime.
      "Sec. 4. If any Indian, who leaves any interest in trust or
    restricted land within the Umatilla Reservation, makes provisions
    for his or her surviving spouse by an approved will, such surviving
    spouse shall have an election whether to take the provisions as
    made in such will or to take the interest as set forth in section 3
    of this Act, but such surviving spouse shall not be entitled to
    both unless it plainly appears by the will to have been so intended
    by the testator. When any surviving spouse is entitled to an
    election under this section, he or she shall be deemed to have
    elected to take the provisions as made in such will unless, at or
    prior to the first hearing to probate the will, he or she has
    elected to take under section 3 of this Act and not under the will.
      "Sec. 5. The provisions of this Act shall apply to all estates of
    decedents who die on or after the date of enactment of this Act
    [Apr. 18, 1978]."


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