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[CITE: 25USC964]

 
                            TITLE 25--INDIANS
 
                        CHAPTER 14--MISCELLANEOUS
 
       SUBCHAPTER XLV--OMAHA TRIBE: DISTRIBUTION OF JUDGMENT FUND
 
Sec. 964. Distribution of shares


(a) Payments to enrollees, next of kin, or legatees

    Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, the Secretary 
shall distribute a per capita share payable to a living enrollee 
directly to such enrollee, and the Secretary shall distribute a per 
capita share payable to a deceased enrollee directly to his next of kin 
or legatees as determined by the laws of the place of domicile of the 
decedent upon proof of death and inheritance satisfactory to the 
Secretary, whose findings upon such proof shall be final and conclusive.

(b) Payments to minors or persons under legal disability

    A share payable to a person under twenty-one years of age or to a 
person under a legal disability shall be paid in accordance with such 
procedures as the Secretary determines will adequately protect the best 
interests of such persons.

(Pub. L. 87-235, Sec. 4, Sept. 14, 1961, 75 Stat. 508.)
