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25 CFR § 171.120 - What are the authorities and responsibilities of a representative organization?

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identifier: "/us/cfr/t25/s171.120"
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title: "25 CFR § 171.120 - What are the authorities and responsibilities of a representative organization?"
title_number: 25
title_name: "Indians"
section_number: "171.120"
section_name: "What are the authorities and responsibilities of a representative organization?"
chapter_name: "BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR"
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subchapter_name: "LAND AND WATER"
part_number: "171"
part_name: "IRRIGATION OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE"
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currency: "2026-03-24"
last_updated: "2026-03-24"
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authority: "25 U.S.C. 2; 25 U.S.C. 9; 25 U.S.C. 13; 25 U.S.C. 381; Act of April 4, 1910, 36 Stat. 270, as amended (codified at 25 U.S.C. 385); 25 U.S.C. 386a; Act of June 22, 1936, 49 Stat. 1803 (codified at 25 U.S.C. 389 )."
regulatory_source: "73 FR 11036, Feb. 29, 2008, unless otherwise noted."
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# 171.120 What are the authorities and responsibilities of a representative organization?

(a) A legally established organization representing you may make rules, policies, and procedures it may find necessary to administer the activities it is authorized to perform.

(b) An organization must not make rules, policies, or procedures that conflict with our regulations or any of our other written policies, procedures, directives, and manuals.

(c) If this organization collects operation and maintenance assessments and construction assessments on your behalf to be paid to us, it must pay us all your past and current operation and maintenance and construction assessment charges before we will provide irrigation service to you.