Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 98 Part 2.djvu/1253

 PUBLIC LAW 98-513—OCT. 19, 1984

98 STAT. 2413

issue of any deceased child, such spouse shall be entitled to onehalf of the income from the lease or other use of the life tenant's interest in the land and such children and issue of children shall be entitled to equal shares of the other one-half, and the same division shall apply to any land use determination; (4) whenever an enrolled member of the tribe dies without a surviving nonmember spouse but survived by nonmember children, such children shall be entitled equally to determine the use and to receive any income from the lease or other use of the life tenant's interest in the land; (5) whenever an enrolled member of the tribe dies without a surviving nonmember spouse but survived by nonmember children and nonmember issue of any deceased child, such children and issue of children shall be entitled equally to determine the use and to receive any income from the lease or other use of the life tenant's interest in the land; and (6) whenever an enrolled member of the tribe dies without a surviving nonmember spouse and nonmember children but survived by nonmember issue of the children of such member, such issue shall be entitled equally to determine the use and to receive any income from the lease or other use of the life tenant's interest in the land. For the purposes of this subsection, any children or the issue of any children of an enrolled member of the tribe born after the death of such member shall have the same rights as any children or the issue of any children who survive such member. SEC. 5. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, no person Prohibition. shall be entitled by devise or descent to take any interest, including any interest in a life estate under section 4 of this Act, less than two and one-half acres, or the equivalent thereof, in trust or restricted land within the reservation. Any interest less than two and one-half acres of a devisee or intestate distributee of a decedent under section 3 of this Act, shall escheat to the tribe and title to such escheated interest shall be taken in the name of the United States in trust for the tribe: Provided, That the provisions of this section shall not be applicable to the devise or descent of any interest in trust or restricted land located within a municipality. SEC. 6. If a decedent has devised an interest in trust or restricted land within the reservation to a person prohibited under section 2 of this Act from acquiring an interest in such trust or restricted land, the interest in such land shall escheat to the tribe and title to such escheated interest shall be taken in the name of the United States in trust for the tribe: Provided, That any interest escheated to the tribe shall be subject to a life estate in the devisee as provided for under section 4(a) of this Act. SEC. 7. (a) Whenever the tribe or an enrolled member, or members, of the tribe holds at least a 50 per centum undivided interest in trust or restricted land within the reservation, the Secretary of the Interior, upon the request of the tribe or the enrolled member, or members, of the tribe shall partition the allotment or part thereof: Provided, That whenever the tribe requests partition, the Secretary shall partition the allotment to the advantage of the heirs, except that any partition shall assure that the tribe retains one contiguous divided interest in the land unless the tribe agrees to a different division: Provided further, That whenever an enrolled member or members of the tribe requests partition, the fair market value of the lands remaining after partition shall not be less than the fair

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