25 U.S.C. § 409a: Sale of restricted lands…

Summary

Lets a nontaxable restricted Indian of the Five Civilized Tribes or any other Indian tribe take money from selling or losing restricted land to a state, county, city, or other buyer and buy other land with it. The Secretary of the Interior must approve the reinvestment. The land bought must have the same limits on selling, leasing, or putting liens against it and the same nontaxable status and amount as the original land. Those limits must be written into the deed.

Title 25, §409a

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Whenever any nontaxable land of a restricted Indian of the Five Civilized Tribes or of any other Indian tribe is sold to any State, county, or municipality for public-improvement purposes, or is acquired, under existing law, by any State, county, or municipality by condemnation or other proceedings for such public purposes, or is sold under existing law to any other person or corporation for other purposes, the money received for said land may, in the discretion and with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, be reinvested in other lands selected by said Indian, and such land so selected and purchased shall be restricted as to alienation, lease, or incumbrance, and nontaxable in the same quantity and upon the same terms and conditions as the nontaxable lands from which the reinvested funds were derived, and such restrictions shall appear in the conveyance.

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1932—Act June 30, 1932, made section applicable to lands of any restricted Indian of any other Indian tribe, and provided for sale of lands to any State and acquisition by any State instead of only to and by the State of Oklahoma.

§409a Sale of Restricted Lands; Reinvestment in Other Restricted Lands

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Title 25, §409a

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