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Assigned Sponsor: Councilman Baker
Committee Author: Todd Hembree
An Act
LEGISLATIVE ACT 2-06
A LEGISLATIVE ACT AMENDING LA#43-2003 "AN ACT AUTHORIZING
EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM AND COMMUNITY SUPPORT
PROJECTS", ADDING NEW LANGUAGE AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY
BE IT ENACTED BY THE CHEROKEE NATION: SECTION 1. TITLE AND CODIFICATION
This Act shall be known as the Emergency Assistance Program and Community Support Projects Amendment of 2003, and shall be codified as Title, Section, of the Cherokee Code Annotated.
SECTION 2. PURPOSE
The purpose of this Act is to allow the Tribal Council the opportunity to consider emergency assistance applications, requests, or referrals that have been considered by the Human Services Department of the Cherokee Nation.
SECTION 3. LEGISLATIVE HISTORY
Article 5 Section 7 of the Cherokee Nation Constitution and Legislative Act 43-2003. SECTION 4. DEFINITIONS
For the purposes of this Title:
A. Request or Referrals: Means the application process a Cherokee citizen
would go through with the Human Services Department of the Cherokee Nation to request emergency assistance
SECTION 5. OPERATIVE PROVISIONS
Amend Section F which shall read as follows:
Requests or Referrals. The Council of the Cherokee Nation may, individually, or as a body, make requests or referrals to the designated Human Services staff for identified needs. Any requests or referrals denied under the program will be reported to the Council member making the initial referral. The Tribal Council may consider for approval any emergency assistance application that has been denied by the Human Services Department of the Cherokee Nation.
SECTION 6. PROVISIONS AS CUMULATIVE
The provisions of this Act shall be cumulative to existing law.
SECTION 7. SEVERABILITY
The provisions of this Act are severable and if any part of provision hereof shall be held void the decision of the court so holding shall not affect or impair any of the remaining parts or provisions of this Act.
SECTION 8. EMERGENCY DECLARED
It being immediately necessary for the welfare of the Cherokee Nation, the Council hereby declares that an emergency exists, by reason whereof this Act shall take effect and be in full force upon its approval and signatures.
Enacted by the Council of Cherokee Nation on the 16th day of January, 2006.
ATTEST:
Don Garvin, Secretary
Council of the Cherokee Nation
Approved and signed by the Principal Chief this 18th day of January, 2006
Chadwick Smith, Principal Chief Cherokee Nation
Callie-Catcher, Secretary/Treasurer Cherokee Nation
YEAS AND NAYS AS RECORDED:
Bill John Baker Yea Melvina Shotpouch Yea
Audra Smoke-Conner Yea Meredith Frailey Yea
S. Joe Crittenden Yea John F. Keener Yea
Jackie Bob Martin Yea Cara Cowan-Watts Yea
Phyllis Yargee Yea Buel Anglen Yea
David W. Thornton, Sr. Yea William G. Johnson Yea
Charles "Chuck" Hoskin Yea Don Garvin Yea
Linda Hughes-O'Leary Yea