[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 25, Volume 1]
[Revised as of April 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 25CFR16.1]

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                            TITLE 25--INDIANS
 
     CHAPTER I--BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
 
PART 16--ESTATES OF INDIANS OF THE FIVE CIVILIZED TRIBES--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 16.1  Definitions.

    (a) The term Secretary means the Secretary of the Interior and his 
authorized representatives.
    (b) The term Bureau means the Bureau of Indian Affairs, acting 
through the Commissioner of Indian Affairs and his authorized 
representatives, including field officials who are responsible for 
matters affecting properties in which a restricted interest is owned by 
an Indian of the Five Civilized Tribes.
    (c) The term Field Solicitor means the Regional Solicitor, Southwest 
Region, Page Belcher Federal Building, P.O. Box 3156, Tulsa, Oklahoma 
74101.
    (d) The term Indian of the Five Civilized Tribes means an individual 
who is either an enrolled member of the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, 
Creek, or Seminole Tribes of Oklahoma, or a descendant of an enrolled 
member thereof.
    (e) The term restricted interest means an interest owned in real or 
personal property subject to restraints upon alienation imposed either 
by Federal statute or by administrative action authorized by Federal 
statute. Although this term includes property subject to restraints 
which may be removed by administrative action, its use in this part 
refers primarily to property subject to restraints which State courts 
have jurisdiction to remove in proceedings such as those specified in 
Sec. 16.2.

[37 FR 7082, Apr. 8, 1972, as amended at 50 FR 12529, Mar. 29, 1985]

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