LEGISLATIVE ACT OF THE
CHEROKEE NATION
(4-76)
Title
AN ACT PROVIDING FOR EFFECTIVE DATE OF LAWS OF THE NATION AND FOR PUBLICATION AND RECORDING OF SAME
Body
Be It Enacted By the Cherokee Nation:
1. All Laws of the Cherokee Nation shall be effective thirty (30) days after approval by the Council and approved and signed by the Principal Chief and published in full in an official publication of the Cherokee Nation, unless a later effective date is provided therein.
2. Publications shall be made in the first issue of the official publication following approval and signature by the Principal Chief or as soon thereafter as it can be accomplished.
3. Any law, notwithstanding the foregoing publication provisions, may be made effective immediately upon the approval and signature of the Principal Chief by a clear finding with a provision therein by the Council that an emergency exists by reason of which the welfare of the Nation requires that it take effect upon approval and signature by the Principal Chief. Any law declaring an emergency shall also be published in the first issue of the official tribal publication in which the same can reasonably be accomplished
4. All Resolutions and Laws of the Cherokee Nation shall be indexed and maintained by the Secretary-Treasurer in a convenient place open to public inspection.
Approved by the Council of the Cherokee Nation this 4th day of December, 1976.
Submitted to the Principal Chief this 4th day of December, 1976.
R. Perry Wheeler President Council of the Cherokee Nation
Approved and signed by the Principal Chief this 4th day of December, 1976.
Attest:
Gary D. Chapman, Secretary-Treasurer
of the Cherokee Nation
Ross O. Swimmer
Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation