Cite as: 73 CNCA § 303

For the purposes of this chapter:

1. "Cherokee Nation" means Cherokee Nation, located in Tahlequah, Oklahoma.

2. "Compact" means an agreement usually applied to agreements between nations or sovereign states.

3. "Comprehensive budget" means the incomes and expenditures as estimated, balanced, and approved by the Cherokee Nation Tribal Council.

4. "Contract" means a promissory agreement, to do or abstain from doing some act, in exchange for sufficient consideration, between two or more parties that creates, modifies or destroys some legal relation.

5. "Credit of Cherokee Nation" means obligation of tribal funds, property resources in which Cherokee Nation has an interest.

6. "Memorandum of Understanding" means a written document embodying the terms of an agreement that the parties desire to fix by an informal written document, which will serve as the basis for a future formal contract.

7. "Principal Chief" means the duly elected and confirmed Principal Chief, Executive Officer of the Cherokee Nation.

8. "Property of Cherokee Nation" means real estate owned or sought to be purchased by Cherokee Nation.

9. "Rights or privileges" means liberty, property, monetary, constitutional or legal interest held by citizens of Cherokee Nation.

10. "Sovereignty" means the matters that concern the boundaries, or territory, or the jurisdiction, or treaty rights, or the powers or the rights of self-governance of Cherokee Nation.

11. "Substantial assets" means litigation that involves an amount in controversy in excess of Twenty-Five Thousand Dollars ($25,000.00).

12. "Treaty" means a compact made between Cherokee Nation and one or more other independent nations or tribes, which if properly authorized and ratified becomes law.

13. "Tribal Council" means the duly elected and confirmed person(s) of the Legislative Branch of Cherokee Nation.

Historical Data

LA 15–01, eff. May 29, 2001.