Cite as: 51 CNCA § 403

A. "Administration" means the Executive Branch of Cherokee Nation as provided for in Article VII of the Cherokee Nation Constitution.

B. "Agency" means commissions, departments, government-owned companies, or other instrumentalities of Cherokee Nation.

C. "Council" or "Tribal Council" means the Council of Cherokee Nation as provided for in Article VI of the Cherokee Nation Constitution.

D. "Deputy Marshal" means a police officer, regardless of rank, employed by the Marshal Service and/or deputized by the Marshal.

E. "Government-owned company" means an entity wholly-owned by Cherokee Nation or any agency, instrumentality, or subdivision thereof.

F. "Marshal" or "the Marshal" means the "Office of Marshal" as created by the 1999 Cherokee Nation Constitution, Article VII, § 14.

G. "Marshal Service" means the Executive Branch agency developed, managed, directed, and overseen by the Marshal with further such oversight by the Principal Chief as provided in the Constitution of the Cherokee Nation and this Act.

H. "Nation" means Cherokee Nation.

I. "Person" means an agency, individual, corporation, estate, trust, general partnership, limited partnership, limited liability company, association, or any other legal, commercial, government-owned company, or governmental entity.

J. "State" means a state, territory, or possession of the United States, a federally-recognized Indian tribe, the District of Columbia or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States.

Historical Data

LA 17–07, eff. April 23, 2007. Amended LA 42-24, eff. November 12, 2024.