25 U.S.C. § 5346: Local committee of Indian…

Summary

When a school district has contracts to educate Indian children under sections 5342–5348 and the local school board is not mostly Indian, the Indian parents must elect a local committee from among themselves. That committee must help develop the education programs under those contracts and can approve or reject them. It will also do other duties and be organized as the Secretary of the Interior decides. If a committee or advisory board already existed before January 4, 1975, the tribe can choose to use it instead. The Secretary of the Interior can cancel a contract if the contractor does not let the local committee do its duties.

Title 25, §5346

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(a)Election; functions

Whenever a school district affected by a contract or contracts for the education of Indians pursuant to sections 5342 to 5348 of this title has a local school board not composed of a majority of Indians, the parents of the Indian children enrolled in the school or schools affected by such contract or contracts shall elect a local committee from among their number. Such committee shall fully participate in the development of, and shall have the authority to approve or disapprove programs to be conducted under such contract or contracts, and shall carry out such other duties, and be so structured, as the Secretary of the Interior shall by regulation provide: Provided, however, That, whenever a local Indian committee or committees established pursuant to section 7424(c)(4) of title 20 or an Indian advisory school board or boards established pursuant to sections 5342 to 5348 of this title prior to January 4, 1975, exists in such school district, such committee or board may, in the discretion of the affected tribal governing body or bodies, be utilized for the purposes of this section.

(b)Revocation of contracts

The Secretary of the Interior may, in his discretion, revoke any contract if the contractor fails to permit a local committee to perform its duties pursuant to subsection (a) of this section.

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Editorial Notes

Codification Section was formerly classified to section 456 of this title prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

Prior Provisions

A prior section 5 of act Apr. 16, 1934, ch. 147, 48 Stat. 596, which excluded Oklahoma from the application of contract provisions, was omitted in the general amendment of act Apr. 16, 1934, by act June 4, 1936, ch. 490, 49 Stat. 1458.

Amendments

2015—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 114–95 made technical amendment to reference in original act which appears in text as reference to section 7424(c)(4) of title 20. 2002—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 107–110 substituted reference to section 7424(c)(4) of title 20 for reference to section 7814(c)(4) of title 20. 1994—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 103–382 substituted reference to section 7814(c)(4) of title 20 for reference to section 241dd(b)(2)(B)(ii) of title 20.

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Effective Date

of 2002 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 107–110 effective Jan. 8, 2002, except with respect to certain noncompetitive programs and competitive programs, see section 5 of Pub. L. 107–110, set out as an

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note under section 6301 of Title 20, Education.

§5346 Local Committee of Indian Parents in School Districts Having School Boards Composed of Non-indian Majority

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Title 25, §5346

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