§ 671. — Use of funds of the Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Ouray Reservation for expenditure and per capita payments; regulations applicable to loans; restriction on attorney fees.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 25USC671]
TITLE 25--INDIANS
CHAPTER 14--MISCELLANEOUS
SUBCHAPTER XXVII--UTE INDIANS OF UTAH
Sec. 671. Use of funds of the Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah and
Ouray Reservation for expenditure and per capita payments;
regulations applicable to loans; restriction on attorney fees
Notwithstanding any other provision of existing law, the tribal
funds now on deposit or hereafter deposited in the United States
Treasury to the credit of the Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Ouray
Reservation may be expended or advanced for such purposes, including per
capita payments, as may be designated by the Tribal Business Committee
of said tribe and approved by the Secretary of the Interior: Provided,
That the aggregate amount of the expenditures and advances authorized by
this section exclusive of per capita payments from interest shall not
exceed 33\1/3\ per centum of such tribal funds now on deposit: Provided
further, That with the exception of a $1,000 per capita payment which is
authorized, no per capita payment shall be approved by the Secretary of
the Interior from the principal of any judgment obtained under the
Jurisdictional Act of June 28, 1938 (52 Stat. 1209), as amended, without
further legislation: Provided further, That any funds advanced for loans
by the tribe to individual Indians or associations of Indians shall be
subject to regulations established for the making of loans from the
revolving loan fund authorized by section 470 of this title: Provided
further, That no part of the funds authorized to be expended or advanced
by this section shall be paid or delivered to or received by any agent
or attorney on account of services rendered in connection with the
preparation or prosecution of the suit or suits in the Court of Claims
which resulted in any or all of the judgments handed down by said court
on July 13, 1950, unless approved by the said court in the proceeding
now pending before said court for the adjudication of attorneys' fees,
or to any agent or attorney on account of any contract for services
rendered or to be rendered in the preparation of any suit against the
United States.
(Aug. 21, 1951, ch. 338, Sec. 1, 65 Stat. 193; June 29, 1954, ch. 412,
68 Stat. 321.)
References in Text
The Jurisdictional Act of June 28, 1938, referred to in text, is act
June 28, 1938, ch. 776, 52 Stat. 1209, which was not classified to the
Code.
The Court of Claims, referred to in text, and the Court of Customs
and Patent Appeals were merged effective Oct. 1, 1982, into a new United
States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit by Pub. L. 97-164, Apr.
2, 1982, 96 Stat. 25, which also created a United States Claims Court
[now United States Court of Federal Claims] that inherited the trial
jurisdiction of the Court of Claims. See sections 48, 171 et seq., 791
et seq., and 1491 et seq. of Title 28, Judiciary and Judicial Procedure.
Amendments
1954--Act June 29, 1954, excepted from 33\1/3\ per centum limitation
on expenditures and advances, per capita payments made from interest.
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in section 676a of this title.
