2-2-3 Adoption of Foreign Law by Reference or Incorporation

Statutes | Confederated Tribes of the Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Indians Tribal Code Title 2 Chapter 2-2 § 2-2-3 | 2019

(a) The adoption of any law or other document into this Code or any other ordinance or enactment of the Tribal Council, by reference or incorporation, shall not constitute waiver, cession, or diminishment of any sovereign power of the CTCLUSI to the jurisdiction whose law is adopted, but shall result in such law becoming the law of the CTCLUSI Tribes. In such an instance, the omission of any part of that law from the part adopted shall not be construed as a negative statement about principles embodied in the omitted part, unless such negative statement is expressly made.

 

(b) Whenever a law or other document of another jurisdiction is adopted by reference or incorporation as the law of the CTCLUSI, the decisions of the courts of that other jurisdiction interpreting such law or other document shall be merely advisory and not binding on the Tribal Courts unless the Tribal Code or any other ordinance or enactment of the Tribal Council expressly so provides.