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An Ordinance for Standard Land Assignments to members of the Te-Moak Tribe of Western Shoshone Indians, all lands, which are now owned, or which hereafter may be acquired by the United States of Government or purchased with Tribal funds for the South Form Reservation shall be assigned by the South Fork Bank Council.
17-1-2. Assignments
Assignments made under this Ordinance shall be for the primary purpose of establishing Land Assignments for members of the Te-Moak Tribe of Western Shoshone Indians and shall be know as "Standard Land Assignments." Only one (1) Standard Land Assignment of sufficient agricultural land shall be held by a member of the Te-Moak Tribe of Western Shoshone Indians of Nevada.
17-1-3. Assignment Document
The South Fork Bank Council shall charge and collect a fee of five ($5.00) dollars for services rendered in making a Standard Land Assignment. This fee is to be collected upon delivery of the Land Assignment document, and said fee deposited in the South Fork Band Council General Funds.
17-1-4. Membership
Any member of the Te-Moak Tribe of Western Shoshone Indians, at the age of twenty-one
(21) or older, head of household or who, regardless of age, is married, desiring
to establish a home of his (her) own shall be eligible to apply for a Standard
Land Assignment.
A member of the Te-Moak Tribe of Western Shoshone Indians married
to a person who is not a member of the said Tribe, shall be considered the head
of a family, and shall be entitled to make an application for a Standard Land
Assignment. If such member dies without living children after having received
a Standard Land Assignment, the Assignment shall be cancelled. However, if a
member dies and if there be living children of the marriage, the South Fork
Band Council, by resolution, shall assign the Land Assignment to the surviving
spouse until such enrolled minor children either marry or reach twenty-one (21)
years of age whereupon the Land Assignment, in the name of the surviving spouse,
shall then be cancelled. The Land Assignment will then be reassigned to either
the married child or to the minor child until he/she becomes twenty-one (21).
17-1-7. Death
Upon the death of any member holding a Standard Land Assignment, his (her) heirs,
by will or by written request, shall have a preference to the reassignment
of the land providing such person is eligible.
17-1-8. Personal Property
When personal property, located on the Standard Land Assignment, is inherited,
either by will or by natural inheritance or is purchased by a person or persons
who cannot make use of it on the Assignment where it is located, the party so
inheriting, or purchasing it may dispose of it in one or more of the following
ways:
a. By removing it at their own expense.
b. By sale to a person who can use it where it is located, with approval of
the Council.
c. By sale to the Tribe on such terms as may be agreed upon. PROVIDED: That
any property that is to be removed from the land shall be within a period of
30 days or more upon review within the first the date on which the land
itself shall have passed into other heirs or have been reassigned, and provided
further, that the land from which the improvements are removed shall be left
in the same goo condition as before the improvements were placed upon it, except
in the case of a well, or foundations which may be left by agreement with the
new Assignee.
17-1-9. Wills
Where no will or written request has been made by the holder of a Standard Land
Assignment, designating the person he (she) desires to have the land reassigned
to, his (her) heirs provided they are members of the Te-Moak Tribe of Western
Shoshone Indians of Nevada, will be determined by proper probate procedure.
The South Fork Band Council may reassign the Standard land Assignment of the
deceased member to the heir so chose, provided such action does not give that
person control of two (2) Standard Land Assignments.
17-1-10. Preference
When an heir by will or by selection dies before the age of
twenty-one (21) , the Standard Land Assignment inherited shall l be cancelled,
and shall then be subject to reassignment, with preference to heirs eligible
to make application for a Standard Land Assignment in the order of relationship
and age, the nearest of kin having first preference and where more than one
person in the same degree of kinship, the older to have preference over the
younger. If no heirs can qualify as eligible for a Standard Land Assignment,
then the land shall be held in South Fork Band control awaiting reassignment
in the regular ways.
17-1-11. Exchange of Assignments
CERTIFICATION
I, the undersigned, as Chairperson of the Te-Moak Council of the Te-Moak Tribe of Western Shoshone Indians of Nevada do hereby certify that the Te-Moak Western Shoshone Council is composed of 9 members of whom 5 constituting a quorum were present at a duly held meeting on the 15th day of July 1987, and that the foregoing ordinance was duly enacted at such meeting by an affirmative vote of 4, FOR 0 AGAINST, 0 ABSTENTIONS, pursuant to the authority contained under Article 8, of the Constitution of the Te-Moak Tribe of Western Shoshone Indians of Nevada.|
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ORDINANCE OF THE
TE-MOAK TRIBE OF WESTERN SHOSHONE INDIANS OF NEVADA
[ORDINANCE NO.] 87-ORD-TM-O4
TITLE XVII CHAPTER 1
BE IT ENACTED BY THE TRIBAL COUNCIL OF THE TE-MOAK TRIBE OF WESTERN SHOSHONE INDIANS OF NEVADA AS FOLLOWS:
That in accordance with Article 4, Section 3 (d) (n) of the Constitution of the Te-Moak Tribe, approved as amended on August 26, 1982, as organized under the Indian Reorganization Act of June 18, 1934, (48 STAT) , as amended by the Act of June 15, 1935, (49 STAT. 378) and Article 2 of the Constitution of the Te-Moak Tribe that this Ordinance is to be known as the South Fork Band Council.