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File #: 16-024    Version: 1 Name: 2016 JOBS GROWTH ACT AMENDMENT
Type: Legislative Act Status: Failed
File created: 2/4/2016 In control: TRIBAL COUNCIL
On agenda: 2/17/2016 Final action:
Enactment date: Enactment #:
Title: A LEGISLATIVE ACT AMENDING TITLE 18 "CORPORATIONS" OF THE CHEROKEE NATION CODE ANNOTATED PERTAINING TO JOBS GROWTH
Sponsors: Dick Lay
Indexes: Boards and Commissions, Cherokee Nation Businesses, Jobs Growth Act
Code sections: Title 18 - Corporations
Related files: CNCA-18
Title
A LEGISLATIVE ACT AMENDING TITLE 18 "CORPORATIONS" OF THE CHEROKEE NATION CODE ANNOTATED PERTAINING TO JOBS GROWTH
Body
BE IT ENACTED BY THE CHEROKEE NATION:

Section 1. Title and Codification

This act shall be known as a Modification of Title 18, Corporations, , initially enacted by Legislative Act 37-05 and now codified as Title 18, Section 404, A(4) of the Cherokee Nation Code Annotated pertaining to CNB board members.

Section 2. Purpose


Section 3. Legislative History
Legislative Act 96-16 Cherokee Nation General Corporation Act
Legislative Act 32-04 Cherokee Nation Limited Liability Corporation Act
Legislative Act 37-05 Jobs Growth Act
Legislative Act 11-10 Jobs Growth Act

Section 4. For purposes of this Title: Tribal Code Modification

TITLE 18, Section 404, A(4)

4. CNB Board of Directors. The CNB Board of Directors shall be comprised of no more than seventeen (17) members which shall include at least fifteen (15) board members from the fifteen (15) individual Council Districts which will be at least one (1) per Council District within the Cherokee Nation 14 County Jurisdiction and at least two (2) from the At-Large Council District Jurisdiction. All CNB Board Members must be Cherokee Nation Citizens. Upon the completion of any presently occupied board term, the district without a board member will have a successful nominee fill that board position. That exercise will be repeated until board positions are properly filled as per the amendment. and shall, upon the dissolution of the CNE and CNI boards, be comprised of the then-current CNB directors and the former members of the dissolved CNE and CNI boards. Other subsidiaries may have directors as allowed by Cherokee law. Provided that, effective upon enactment of this act, the seats shall be assigned as follows:

Seat 1, a term expiring 9/30/14, currently held by Mike Watkins

Seat 2, a term expiring 9/30/14, currently held by Tommy Sue Wright

Seat 3, a term...

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