Stockbridge Munsee Community, Wisconsin - Tribal Law

Law Information

Cites
  • Stockbridge-Munsee Tribal Council Res. No. 023-16 (PDF)
  • BIA Approval for Res. No. 023-16 (PDF)
Effective

February 22, 2016

Adopted

February 3, 2016

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Resolution No. 023-16 — Procedures

WHEREAS, The Stockbridge-Munsee Community is a federally recognized Indian tribe with inherent sovereign powers and is governed by the Stockbridge-Munsee Tribal Council pursuant to the 1937 Constitution, as amended;

WHEREAS, The Stockbridge-Munsee Community has the authority under its Constitution and its inherent rights as a sovereign nation to adopt and amend Ordinances;

WHEREAS, Chapter 50, the Procedures Ordinance, which establishes procedural requirements for the conduct of tribal meetings and operations, was originally adopted in 1939 and has since been amended; and

WHEREAS, The Tribal Council has proposed revisions to the ordinance that update the ordinance as well as codify tribal practice and prior Tribal Council actions regulating the conduct of tribal meetings and operation of the Tribal Council and its boards and committees;

NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, the Stockbridge-Munsee Tribal Council hereby adopts the amendments to Chapter 50, which include the following changes:

  • Creating section titles;
  • Standardizing the formatting and terminology throughout the ordinance;
  • Numbering the introductory provisions of the ordinance to create a new Section 50.1 and to renumber what had been Section 50.1 as Section 50.1.5;
  • Establishing new sections: 50.12, 50.13, 50.14, 50.15;
  • Establishing new subsections: 50.1(B)-(D), 50.2(C)-(G), 50.4(C)-(E), 50.5(A)(3), 50.5(B), 50.6(A), 50.6(C)-(G), 50.7(A), 50.7(D)-(F), 50.16(B); and
  • Amending subsections: 50.2(A)-(B), 50.3, 50.4(A)(3), 50.4(B), 50.6(B), 50.7(B), 50.8, 50.9(A), 50.9(C), 50.10(A), 50.11(A), 50.16(A).

Original url: https://law.mohican.com/us/nsn/mohican/council/resolutions/2016/023-16

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