---
kind: "section"
citation: "25 C.F.R. § 89.40"
title: "25"
number: "89.40"
heading: "General policy."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/25/89.40"
---

# §89.40. General policy.


In ordinary circumstances, legal services with respect to trust resources are provided for Indian tribe(s):

- (a) By private counsel employed by tribes when such tribe is financially able and elects to do so, or
- (b) **By the United States as trustee through the Office of the Solicitor and/or the Department of Justice.**

## Notes

### Source

Source: 48 FR 3969, Jan. 28, 1983, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 301; secs. 89.30 to 89.35 also issued under 25 U.S.C. 2, 9, and 82a; secs. 89.40 to 89.43 also issued under 25 U.S.C. 13, 450 et seq.