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U.S. Code as of:
01/19/04
Section 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.
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