AN ACT
Enrolled
Legislative Act 1-85
Title
AN ACT RELATING TO CHEROKEE NATION OF OKLAHOMA GENERAL LAWS; PROVIDING FOR THE REVISION OF THE GENERAL LAWS INTO STATUTE FORM; ESTABLISHING A CODE COMMISSION WITHIN THE RULES COMMITTEE; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
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BE IT ENACTED BY THE CHEROKEE NATION:
SECTION 1. A code commission is hereby established within
the rules committee of the council of the Cherokee Nation to be composed of the Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation, the President of the Council, and all members of the rules committee, of which the Principal Chief shall be ex officio chairman. Said code commissioners shall serve without additional compensation; providing that if sessions of this Commission shall be necessary when the rules committee is not in session, the members and officers of the council on said Commission shall receive their regular per diem as members of the council, together with their proper and necessary expenses incurred in attendance upon said meeting; to be paid from the appropriation made for the salaries and expenses of the council. The Commission shall meet at the
1 Seat of Government upon the call of the chairman.
SECTION 2. Said Code Commissioners shall supervise in the
revision of the general laws. Said revision shall consist of those activities necessary to allow for the codification of the general laws. Said revision activities shall include:
(a) Specifically repeal laws or sections thereof already repealed by general repealing acts, but the repeal of which is not sufficiently specific and certain to justify their omission from the compilation of codes.
(b) Shall specifically repeal laws or sections thereof 1
superseded by subsequent statutes, but not described or indicated
with sufficient definiteness to justify elimination.|109|(c) Consolidate sections where two or more sections cover the
same subject matter.
(d) Re-draft laws or sections thereof where two or more subjects are covered in the same law or section.
(e) R...
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