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[CITE: 25USC504]

 
                            TITLE 25--INDIANS
 
                        CHAPTER 14--MISCELLANEOUS
 
       SUBCHAPTER VIII--INDIANS IN OKLAHOMA: PROMOTION OF WELFARE
 
Sec. 504. Cooperative associations; charter; purposes; voting 
        rights
        
    Any ten or more Indians, as determined by the official tribal rolls, 
or Indian descendants of such enrolled members, or Indians as defined in 
the Act of June 18, 1934 (48 Stat. 984) [25 U.S.C. 461 et seq.], who 
reside within the State of Oklahoma in convenient proximity to each 
other may receive from the Secretary of the Interior a charter as a 
local cooperative association for any one or more of the following 
purposes: Credit administration, production, marketing, consumers' 
protection, or land management. The provisions of this subchapter, the 
regulations of the Secretary of the Interior, and the charters of the 
cooperative associations issued pursuant thereto shall govern such 
cooperative associations: Provided, That in those matters not covered by 
this subchapter, regulations, or charters, the laws of the State of 
Oklahoma, if applicable, shall govern. In any stock or nonstock 
cooperative association no one member shall have more than one vote, and 
membership therein shall be open to all Indians residing within the 
prescribed district.

(June 26, 1936, ch. 831, Sec. 4, 49 Stat. 1967.)

                       References in Text

    Act of June 18, 1934, referred to in text, popularly known as the 
Indian Reorganization Act, is classified generally to subchapter V 
(Sec. 461 et seq.) of this chapter. Provisions of the Act defining 
``Indian'' appear in section 479 of this title. For complete 
classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out 
under section 461 of this title and Tables.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 505 of this title.
