§ 586. — Northwestern Band of Shoshone Indians; payment to enrollees; heirs or legatees; trust for minors and persons under legal disability.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 25USC586]
TITLE 25--INDIANS
CHAPTER 14--MISCELLANEOUS
SUBCHAPTER XV--SHOSHONE TRIBE: DISTRIBUTION OF JUDGMENT FUND
Sec. 586. Northwestern Band of Shoshone Indians; payment to
enrollees; heirs or legatees; trust for minors and persons under
legal disability
The funds apportioned to the Northwestern Band of Shoshone Indians,
less attorney's fees, and expenses due the attorneys representing the
Northwestern Band under an approved contract, effective March 1, 1968,
shall be placed to its credit in the United States Treasury and shall be
distributed equally to the members whose names appear on the final roll
and in accordance with the provisions of sections 581 to 590 of this
title.
(a) The per capita shares shall be determined on the basis of the
number of persons listed on the proposed roll published as hereinbefore
provided and the number of persons on whose behalf an appeal has been
taken to the Secretary contesting omission from such proposed roll. The
share of those persons excluded from the final roll by reason of the
decision of the Secretary on appeal shall be distributed equally to the
persons included on the final roll.
(b) The Secretary shall distribute a share payable to a living
enrollee directly to such enrollee. The per capita share of a deceased
enrollee shall be paid to his heirs or legatees upon proof of death and
inheritance satisfactory to the Secretary, whose findings upon such
proof shall be final and conclusive. A share or interest therein payable
to enrollees or their heirs or legatees who are less than twenty-one
years of age or who are under legal disability shall be paid in
accordance with such procedures, including the establishment of trusts,
as the Secretary determines appropriate to protect the best interest of
such persons.
(Pub. L. 92-206, Sec. 6, Dec. 18, 1971, 85 Stat. 738.)
