Title 25 — IndiansRelease 119-73

§416b Development pursuant to lease

Title 25 › Chapter CHAPTER 12— - LEASE, SALE, OR SURRENDER OF ALLOTTED OR UNALLOTTED LANDS › § 416b

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

Before the Secretary of the Interior approves a lease for public, religious, educational, recreational, business, or residential use on the San Xavier or Salt River Pima‑Maricopa reservations, he must tell the officials of any town or city next to the reservation if he thinks the lease will significantly affect their government interests. He can give an outline of the main lease terms and must consider any comments they send back within a reasonable time, but no more than 30 days. Congress wants the rules for developing reservation land by non‑Indian lessees to be, as much as possible, like the state or local rules that apply to developing nearby non‑Indian land.

Full Legal Text

Title 25, §416b

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(a)The Secretary of the Interior shall, before he approves any lease under sections 416 to 416j of this title for public, religious, educational, recreational, business, or residential purposes and if he determines that such lease will substantially affect the governmental interests of a municipality described hereunder, notify the appropriate authorities of any municipality contiguous to the San Xavier or Salt River Pima-Maricopa Reservation, as the case may be, of the pendency of the proposed lease and, in his discretion, furnish them with an outline of the major provisions of the lease which affect such governmental interests and shall consider any comments on the terms of the lease affecting the municipality, or on the absence of such terms from the lease, that such authorities may offer within such reasonable period, but not more than thirty days, as the Secretary may prescribe in his notice to them.

(b)It is the intent of the Congress that the terms under which lands located on the San Xavier and Salt River Pima-Maricopa Reservations are developed by non-Indian lessees shall, to the extent reasonably possible, be similar to those applicable under State or local law to the development of non-Indian lands in the municipalities contiguous thereto.

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Citation

25 U.S.C. § 416b

Title 25 — Indians

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73