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§2207 Full faith and credit to tribal actions under tribal ordinances limiting descent and distribution of trust or restricted or controlled lands

Title 25 › Chapter CHAPTER 24— - INDIAN LAND CONSOLIDATION › § 2207

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

When the Secretary makes rules about who inherits trust lands under section 372 and other laws, the Secretary must recognize and give legal effect to tribal actions taken under subsections (a) and (b) of section 2205. That recognition applies only to estates of people who die on or after the effective date of the tribal ordinances adopted under this chapter.

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Title 25, §2207

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The Secretary in carrying out his responsibility to regulate the descent and distribution of trust lands under section 372 of this title, and other laws, shall give full faith and credit to any tribal actions taken pursuant to subsections (a) and (b) of section 2205 of this title, which provision shall apply only to estates of decedent’s whose deaths occur on or after the effective date of tribal ordinances adopted pursuant to this chapter.

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2000—Pub. L. 106–462 substituted “subsections (a) and (b) of section 2205” for “section 2205”.

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25 U.S.C. § 2207

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Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73