US Code Home
rwb rule
  • Sec.  677. Purpose.
  • Sec.  677a. Definitions.
  • Sec.  677b. Method of determining Ute Indian blood.
  • Sec.  677c. Transfer of members from full-blood roll to mixed-blood group; time; certification by Secretary.
  • Sec.  677d. Restriction of tribe to full-blood members after publication of final rolls; non-interest of mixed-blood members; new membership.
  • Sec.  677e. Organization of mixed-blood members; constitution and bylaws; representatives; actions in absence of organization.
  • Sec.  677f. Employment of legal counsel for mixed-blood members; fees.
  • Sec.  677g. Membership rolls of full-blood and mixed-blood members; preparation and initial publication; appeal from inclusion or omission from rolls; finality of determination; final publication; inheritable interest; future membership.
  • Sec.  677h. Sale or other disposition of certain described lands; funds; relief of United States from liability; assigned lands.
  • Sec.  677i. Division of assets; basis; prior alienation or encumbrance; partition by Secretary upon nonagreement; assistance; management of claims and rights; division of net proceeds; applicability of usual processes of the law to originally owned stock of corporate representative and to corporate distributions.
  • Sec.  677j. Advances or expenditures from tribal funds; restrictions on mixed-blood group until adoption of plan for terminating supervision.
  • Sec.  677k. Adjustment of debts in making per capita payments to mixed-blood members; execution of mortgages on property.
  • Sec.  677l. Distribution to individual members of mixed-blood group; preparation and approval of plan; assistance; provisions permitted in plan.
  • Sec.  677m. Procedure by Secretary if distribution not completed within seven years from August 27, 1954.
  • Sec.  677n. Disposal by mixed-blood members of their individual interests in tribal assets; requisites and conditions.
  • Sec.  677o. Termination of restrictions on individually owned property of the mixed-blood group.
  • Sec.  677p. Tax exemption; exceptions and time limits; valuation for income tax on gains or losses.
  • Sec.  677q. Applicability of decedents' estates laws to individual trust property of mixed-blood members.
  • Sec.  677r. Indian claims unaffected.
  • Sec.  677s. Valid leases, permits, liens, etc., unaffected.
  • Sec.  677t. Water rights.
  • Sec.  677u. Protection of minors, persons non compos mentis, and other members needing assistance; guardians.
  • Sec.  677v. Termination of Federal trust; publication; termination of Federal services; application of Federal and State laws.
  • Sec.  677w. Presentation of development program for full-blood group to eventually terminate Federal supervision.
  • Sec.  677x. Citizenship status unaffected.
  • Sec.  677y. Execution by Secretary of patents, deeds, etc.
  • Sec.  677z. Rules and regulations; tribal or group referenda.
  • Sec.  677aa. Procedure by Secretary upon non-agreement between mixed-blood and full-blood groups.
bwr rule

Questions or comments regarding this service? Contact the
GPO Access User Support Team by Internet e-mail at gpoaccess@gpo.gov ;
by telephone at 1-202-512-1530 or 1-888-293-6498; or by fax at 1-202-512-1262.

(Last updated May 8, 2002)