§81.6. How is a Secretarial election requested?
25 C.F.R. § 81.6
To request a Secretarial election:
The tribe or petitioner must submit:
A duly adopted tribal resolution, tribal ordinance, other appropriate tribal document requesting the Secretary to call a Secretarial election, or, in the absence of an existing governing document or if authorized or required by the existing governing documents, a petition that has been verified by the Bureau as having the minimum number of required signatures of tribal members; and
The exact document or amended language to be voted on; and
The tribe must submit a list in an electronically sortable format with names, last known addresses, dates of birth, and voting district, if any, of all tribal members who:
Will be 18 years of age or older within 120 days of the date of the request; and
Meet any other voting restrictions imposed by the tribe's governing document for voting in the Secretarial election.
Notes, amendments, and revision history
Authority
Authority: : 25 U.S.C. 473a, 476, 477, as amended, and 503.
Source
Source: 80 FR 63106, Oct. 19, 2015, unless otherwise noted.