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[CITE: 25USC1706]

 
                            TITLE 25--INDIANS
 
               CHAPTER 19--INDIAN LAND CLAIMS SETTLEMENTS
 
           SUBCHAPTER I--RHODE ISLAND INDIAN CLAIMS SETTLEMENT
 
                       Part A--General Provisions
 
Sec. 1706. Findings by Secretary

    Section 1705 of this title shall not take effect until the Secretary 
finds--
        (a) that the State of Rhode Island has enacted legislation 
    creating or authorizing the creation of a State chartered 
    corporation satisfying the following criteria:
            (1) the corporation shall be authorized to acquire, 
        perpetually manage, and hold the settlement lands;
            (2) the corporation shall be controlled by a board of 
        directors, the majority of the members of which shall be 
        selected by the Indian Corporation or its successor, and the 
        remaining members of which shall be selected by the State of 
        Rhode Island; and
            (3) the corporation shall be authorized, after consultation 
        with appropriate State officials, to establish its own 
        regulations concerning hunting and fishing on the settlement 
        lands, which need not comply with regulations of the State of 
        Rhode Island but which shall establish minimum standards for the 
        safety of persons and protection of wildlife and fish stock; and

        (b) that State of Rhode Island has enacted legislation 
    authorizing the conveyance to the State Corporation of land and 
    natural resources that substantially conform to the public 
    settlement lands as described in paragraph 2 of the Settlement 
    Agreement.

(Pub. L. 95-395, Sec. 7, Sept. 30, 1978, 92 Stat. 816.)

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 1702, 1705, 1707, 1709 of 
this title.
