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Waganakising Odawa Tribal Code : Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians

Date: WOTC effective through January 26, 2007 - Updated 08/2007



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Table of Contents
Cover

Title 1. Constitution
  • Article 1. Reserved rights of tribal membership
  • Article 2. Individual rights
  • Article 3. Definitions
  • Article 4. Territory, jurisdiction, language, and service area
  • Article 5. Membership
  • Article 6. Organization of the government
  • Article 7. Tribal Council
  • Article 8. Executive
  • Article 9. Judicial
  • Article 10. Tribal Prosecutor
  • Article 11. Election Board
  • Article 12. Elections
  • Article 13. Recall, removal, and vacancies
  • Article 14. Initiative and referendum
  • Article 15. Conflict of interest
  • Article 16. Tribal records
  • Article 17. Amendments
  • Article 18. Sovereign immunity
  • Article 19. Rights of the Tribe and its members
  • Article 20. Adoption
  • Article 21. Prior actions
Title 2. Citizenship, tribal enrollment
  • Ch. 1. Citizenship
  • Ch. 2. William Ray Kiogima and Helen Agnes Kiogima Noozwin Act
Title 3. Elections
  • Ch. 1. Tribal elections and Election Board
Title 4. Natural resource protection
  • Ch. 1. Fishing rules and regulations for the treaty ceded waters of Lake Superior, Huron, and Michigan
  • Chippewa Ottawa Resource Authority, commercial, subsistence and recreational fishing regulations for the 1836 treaty ceded waters of Lakes Superior, Huron, and Michigan
  • Ch. 2. LTBB off-reservation (ceded territory)
  • Ch. 3. Natural resources regulations (repealed)
  • Ch. 4. Wetland protection and management
  • Ch. 5. Natural Resources Commission
  • Ch. 6. Protection of Great Lakes
  • Ch. 7. Solid waste disposal
  • Ch. 8. Conservation and Cultural Preservation Easement Act
  • Ch. 9. Fishing vessel safety
  • Ch. 10. Act prohibiting the patenting of organisms

Title 5. Child welfare

  • Ch. 1. Child Protection Statute.
  • Ch. 2. Child Welfare Commission
  • Ch. 3. Direct consent and open adoptions
  • Ch. 4. Juvenile justice

Title 6. Government and administration

  • Ch. 1. Legislative procedures, Odawa Register
  • Ch. 2. Administrative Procedures Act
  • Ch. 3. Budget formulation process
  • Ch. 4. Commissions, Boards, and Committees
  • Ch. 5. Removal of Commissioners and nepotism
  • Ch. 6. Service of Commissioners
  • Ch. 7. Indian preference in tribal employment
  • Ch. 8. Tribal Sovereignty Day
  • Ch. 9. Odawa property managers
  • Ch. 10. Open meetings
  • Ch. 11. Whistle blower protection
  • Ch. 12. Constitutionally mandated compensation
  • Ch. 13. Tribal Treasurer responsibility
  • Ch. 14. Administrative procedures
  • Ch. 15.Enjinaaknegeng
  • Ch. 16. Tribal Youth Services Department
  • Ch. 17. Office of the Legislative Attorney
  • Ch. 18. Financial disclosure by tribal officials
  • Ch. 19. Disclosure of Public Documents Act
  • Ch. 20. Application of foreign law
  • Ch. 21. The tribal seal of the Waganakising Odawak Nation
  • Ch. 22. Judicial and prosecutorial appointments
  • Ch. 23. Membership in MAST [Midwest Alliance of Sovereign Tribes], NIGA [National Indian Gaming Association], and NCAI [National Congress of American Indians]

Title 7. Economic development

  • Ch. 1. A plan for the use of the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians' judgment fund distribution
  • Ch. 2. Trust Fund Board
  • Ch. 3. Economic Development Commission
  • Ch. 4. Gaming regulation
  • Ch. 5. Gaming Board of Directors
  • Ch. 6. Investment policy
  • Ch. 7. Hotel room tax
Title 8. Housing
  • Ch. 1. Housing Commission
  • Ch. 2. Foreclosure
  • Ch. 3. Mortgage of trust or restricted land
  • Ch. 4. Evictions
  • Ch. 5. Eviction procedures
  • Ch. 6. Lease inheritance
Title 9. Criminal laws; liquor control
  • Ch. 1. Criminal code.
  • Ch. 2. Liquor control
  • Ch. 3. Motor vehicle and parking
  • Ch. 4. Check, draft or order for payment of money; making, drawing, uttering, or delivering without sufficient funds with intent to defraud; violation, penalties
  • Ch. 5. Felony defined
  • Ch. 6. Victims Rights Act
  • Ch. 7. Domestic violence protection
Title 10. Land use and building
  • Ch. 1. Handicap accessible new construction
  • Ch. 2. Authorization of traditional activities on Osborne Road property
  • Ch. 3. Zoning
  • Ch. 4. Building code adoption
  • Ch. 5. Site plan review
Title 11. Health education
  • Ch. 1. Health Commission
  • Ch. 2. Education Commission
  • Ch. 3. Michelle Chingwa Education Assistance Act
  • Ch. 4. Welfare of adults
  • Ch. 5. Burial program
  • Ch. 6. Food Safety Act
Title 12. Corporations, businesses, and commercial transactions
  • Ch. 1. Corporations code
    • Part 1. General provisions
    • Part 2. Tribal corporations
    • Part 3. For-profit corporations code
    • Part 4. Non-profit corporations code
    • Part 5. Savings clause
  • Ch. 2(A). Secured transactions
  • Ch. 3. Business assumed name

Title 13. Marriage and probate

  • Ch. 1. Marriage
  • Ch. 2. (Reserved for dissolution of marriage)
  • Ch. 3. Probate code