Section ADM.01.16 — Recusal

(a) Persons with a conflict of interest in relation to a matter before the Council or a Committee shall avoid participation in decisions on such matter. Tribal ethics law, particularly Chapter ADM.02, shall guide what is considered to be a conflict of interest.

(b) Each person shall make the initial assessment as to whether he or she needs to recuse him or herself from a decision.

(c) If a person recuses him or herself from a matter, then that person shall not participate in any discussion or vote on the matter. A majority vote of the persons not recused is sufficient to adopt an action.

(d) Recusal decisions may be challenged by any other member of the Council (or that Committee).

(e) Challenges to recusal decisions must be raised within 15-days of the date that the Council directives or Committee minutes are issued for a particular meeting or such a challenge is barred for not being timely.

(f) If the majority of the Council or a particular Committee (not including the member whose action was challenged) determines that a person should have recused himself or herself from a particular decision, then that person's vote on the matter shall be nullified.