---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 C.F.R. § 136.41"
title: "42"
number: "136.41"
heading: "Definitions."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/42/136.41"
---

# §136.41. Definitions.


For purposes of making appointments to vacancies in all positions in the Indian Health Service, a preference will be extended to persons of Indian descent who are:

- (a) Members of any recognized Indian tribe now under Federal jurisdiction;
- (b) Descendants of such members who were, on June 1, 1934, residing within the present boundaries of any Indian reservation;
- (c) All others of one-half or more Indian blood of tribes indigenous to the United States;
- (d) Eskimos and other aboriginal people of Alaska; or
- (e) Until January 4, 1990, or until the Osage Tribe has formally organized, whichever comes first, a person of at least one-quarter degree Indian ancestry of the Osage Tribe of Indians, whose rolls were closed by an act of Congress.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 25 U.S.C. 44, 45, 46 and 472; Pub. L. 83-568, 68 Stat 674, 42 U.S.C. 2003.

### Source

Source: 64 FR 58321, Oct. 28, 1999, unless otherwise noted. Redesignated at 67 FR 35342, May 17, 2002.

### Authority

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 2001 and 2003; 25 U.S.C. 13; and 25 U.S.C. 1621a.