---
kind: "section"
citation: "25 C.F.R. § 224.159"
title: "25"
number: "224.159"
heading: "How will reassumption affect valid existing rights or lawful actions taken before the effective date of the reassumption?"
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/25/224.159"
---

# §224.159. How will reassumption affect valid existing rights or lawful actions taken before the effective date of the reassumption?


Reassumption will not affect valid existing rights that vested before the effective date of the reassumption or lawful actions the Tribe and the Secretary took before the effective date of the reassumption.


## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 25 U.S.C. 2 and 9; 25 U.S.C. 3501-3504; Pub. L. 109-58; Pub. L. 115-325.

### Source

Source: 73 FR 12821, Mar. 10, 2008, unless otherwise noted.