61.01.090 Membership

(a) Members and Alternate Members of the Tribe's public bodies shall be subject to the Tribe's Code of Ethics Title and employment law regarding nepotism and conflicts of interest.

(b) Except if a specific law of the Tribe provides otherwise or as provided immediately below, the Tribe shall allow immediate family or any other individual who is related to a Tribal Council member, the Chairman, or the appointed staff of the Chairman to serve on public bodies. The only exception is if the Tribal Council passes a Resolution for a specific public body to prohibit immediate family members from serving on that public body;

(1) If the Tribal Council passes a Resolution prohibiting a certain public body from having an immediate family member serve on a public body, under the following two (2) circumstances an immediate family member may continue to serve on that public body:

(A) If the immediate family member is serving on a public body at the time of passage of the Resolution, he or she may continue to serve on that public body until such time as he or she must be re-appointed to that public body.

(B) If an immediate family member is serving on a public body and a Legislator is newly elected to the Tribal Council, the immediate family member may continue to serve on that public body until such time as he or she must be re-appointed to that public body.

(C) If the Tribal Council passes a Resolution prohibiting certain public bodies from having immediate family relatives serving on a public body, the passage of the Resolution along with the name of the public body shall be notated in the law or resolution.

(c) Immediate family is defined as parent, grandparent, sibling, child, step relative, spouse, or cohabitant.