---
kind: "section"
citation: "25 C.F.R. § 700.69"
title: "25"
number: "700.69"
heading: "Head of household."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/25/700.69"
---

# §700.69. Head of household.

- (a) **Household.** A household is:
  - (1) A group of two or more persons living together at a specific location who form a unit of permanent and domestic character.
  - (2) A single person who at the time his/her residence on land partitioned to the Tribe of which he/she is not a member actually maintained and supported him/herself or was legally married and is now legally divorced.
- (b) **Head of household.** The head of household is that individual who speaks on behalf of the members of the household and who is designated by the household members to act as such.
- (c) In order to qualify as a head of household, the individual must have been a head of household as of the time he/she moved from the land partitioned to a tribe of which they were not a member.

## Notes

### Amendments

[49 FR 22278, May 29, 1984]

### Authority

Authority: Pub. L. 99-590; Pub. L. 93-531, 88 Stat. 1712 as amended by Pub. L. 96-305, 94 Stat. 929, Pub. L. 100-666, 102 Stat. 3929 (25 U.S.C. 640d).

### Source

Source: 47 FR 2092, Jan. 14, 1982, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[49 FR 22278, May 29, 1984]