---
kind: "section"
citation: "43 C.F.R. § 5.16"
title: "43"
number: "5.16"
heading: "When must I ask permission from Indian groups and communities?"
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/43/5.16"
---

# §5.16. When must I ask permission from Indian groups and communities?


Anyone who desires to take pictures, including motion pictures, or to make a television production or a soundtrack of Indian communities, churches, kivas, plazas, or ceremonies performed in these places, must:

- (a) Obtain prior permission from the proper officials of the place or community; and
- (b) **Scrupulously observe any limitations imposed by the officials who grant the permission.**

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 301; 16 U.S.C. 1-3, 3a, 668dd-ee, 715i, 460 l -6d; 25 U.S.C. 2; 31 U.S.C. 9701; 43 U.S.C. 1701, 1732-1734, 1740.

### Source

Source: 78 FR 52095, Aug. 22, 2013, unless otherwise noted.