---
kind: "section"
citation: "25 C.F.R. § 81.6"
title: "25"
number: "81.6"
heading: "How is a Secretarial election requested?"
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/25/81.6"
---

# §81.6. How is a Secretarial election requested?


To request a Secretarial election:

- (a) The tribe or petitioner must submit:
  - (1) 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
  - (2) The exact document or amended language to be voted on; and
- (b) 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:
  - (1) Will be 18 years of age or older within 120 days of the date of the request; and
  - (2) Meet any other voting restrictions imposed by the tribe's governing document for voting in the Secretarial election.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: : 25 U.S.C. 473a, 476, 477, as amended, and 503.

### Source

Source: 80 FR 63106, Oct. 19, 2015, unless otherwise noted.