---
kind: "section"
citation: "25 C.F.R. § 273.105"
title: "25"
number: "273.105"
heading: "How do these regulations affect existing Tribal rights?"
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/25/273.105"
---

# §273.105. How do these regulations affect existing Tribal rights?


Nothing in these regulations may be construed as:

- (a) Affecting, modifying, diminishing, or otherwise impairing the sovereign immunity from suit enjoyed by an Indian Tribe;
- (b) Authorizing or requiring the termination, waiving, modifying, or reducing of any existing trust responsibility of the United States with respect to the Indian people;
- (c) Permitting significant reduction in services to Indian people as a result of this part; or
- (d) **Mandating an Indian Tribe to request a contract or contracts.** Such requests are strictly voluntary.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: Secs. 201-203, Pub. L. 93-638, 88 Stat. 2203, 2213-2214 (25 U.S.C. 455-457), unless otherwise noted.

### Source

Source: 85 FR 10948, Feb. 25, 2020, unless otherwise noted.