25 CFR § 81.50 - Who must follow these requirements?

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identifier: "/us/cfr/t25/s81.50"
source: "ecfr"
legal_status: "authoritative_unofficial"
title: "25 CFR § 81.50 - Who must follow these requirements?"
title_number: 25
title_name: "Indians"
section_number: "81.50"
section_name: "Who must follow these requirements?"
chapter_name: "BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR"
subchapter_number: "F"
subchapter_name: "TRIBAL GOVERNMENT"
part_number: "81"
part_name: "SECRETARIAL ELECTION PROCEDURES"
positive_law: false
currency: "2026-03-24"
last_updated: "2026-03-24"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
authority: ": 25 U.S.C. 473a, 476, 477, as amended, and 503."
regulatory_source: "80 FR 63106, Oct. 19, 2015, unless otherwise noted."
cfr_part: "81"
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# 81.50 Who must follow these requirements?

Any tribe meeting the criteria in paragraphs (a) or (b) of this section must follow the requirements of this subpart.

(a) A tribe whose governing document or charter of incorporation provides for petitioning the Secretary to call a Secretarial election for any of the following purposes:

(1) Amending or revoking the governing document;

(2) Amending a charter of incorporation ratified under 25 U.S.C. 477 of the IRA before May 24, 1990 where the amendments section or article specifically requires it;

(3) Amending or ratifying a charter of incorporation under 25 U.S.C. 503 of the OIWA; or

(4) Taking any other action authorized by the governing document or charter of incorporation.

(b) A federally recognized tribe, without an existing governing document, adopting a governing document under Federal statute, for the first time.