Title
TITLE 19 COUNCIL (INCLUDES 2016 POCKET PART)
Body
Chapter
1. General Provisions
2. Committees
3. Salaries and Expenses
4. Officers and Meetings
5. Governmental Records
6. Subpoena and Investigations
TITLE 19 COUNCIL
7. Drug testing for elected officials
CHAPTER 1 GENERAL PROVISIONS
Section
1. Voting upon appointment to public office of persons related to Members of Council
2. Removal of Members of Council
3. Filling of vacancies
4. Repealed
5. Publication of Council minutes
§ 1. Voting upon appointment to public office of persons related to Members of Council
No Member of the Council shall vote for the appointment of any person to any office in the Nation who is related to such Member by affinity or consan- guinity within the first degree.
Source. LA 6-85, eff. July 13, 1985.
History
Indians 217. Westlaw Topic No. 209.
Library References
§ 2. Removal of Members of Council
Any Member of the Council may be removed by a majority vote of the other Members of the Council for willful neglect of duty, habitual drunkenness or conviction of any crime involving moral turpitude while in office.
Source. LA 6-85, eff. July 13, 1985.
History
Indians 218. Westlaw Topic No. 209.
Library References
18 CNCA § 3
§ 3. Filling of vacancies
COUNCIL
A. When a vacancy occurs in any office of elected councilors, the Tribal Council shall appoint, by a majority vote of the remaining councilors, a person to fill the vacancy until the next General Election. Provided that if there are twenty-four (24) months or more remaining of the term of office that has been vacated then the vacancy shall be filled by Special Election by the electorate of that District.
B. A vacancy occurs upon the effective date of the resignation of the Councilor, the death of a Councilor, the disability of the Councilor or the judicial determination of the inability to serve as Councilor.
C. If more than twenty-four (24) months remain of the Councilor’s term whose office is vacated, then a Sp...
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