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tion shall apply to all dependent members of his 

 household who are less than eighteen years of age, 

 but shall not affect the enrollment of anyone else. 

 (Pub. L. 92-203, § 5, Dec. 18, 1971, 85 Stat. 690.) 



§ 1605. Alaska Native Fund. 



(a) Establishment in Treasury; deposits into Fund 

 of general fund, interest, and revenue sharing 

 moneys. 

 There is hereby established in the United States 

 Treasury an Alaska Native Fund into which the fol- 

 lowing moneys shall be deposited: 



(1) $462,500,000 from the general fund of the 

 Treasury, which are authorized to be appropriated 

 according to the following schedule: 



(A) $12,500,000 during the fiscal year in 

 which this chapter becomes effective; 



(B) $50,000,000 during the second fiscal year; 



(C) $70,000,000 during each of the third, 

 fourth, and fifth fiscal years; 



(D) $40,000,000 during the sixth fiscal year; 

 and 



(E) $30,000,000 during each of the next five 

 fiscal years. 



(2) Pour percent interest per annum, which is 

 authorized to be appropriated, on any amount 

 authorized to be appropriated by this paragraph 

 that is not appropriated within six months after 

 the fiscal year in which payable. 



(3) $500,000,000 pursuant to the revenue shar- 

 ing provisions of section 1608 of this title. 



(b) Prohibition of expenditures for propaganda or 

 political campaigns; misdemeanor; penalty. 



None of the funds paid or distributed pursuant to 

 this section to any of the Regional and Village Cor- 

 porations established pursuant to this chapter shall 

 be expended, donated, or otherwise used for the pur- 

 pose of carrying on propaganda, or intervening in 

 (including the publishing and distributing of state- 

 ments) any political campaign on behalf of any 

 candidate for public office. Any person who willfully 

 violates the foregoing provision shall be guilty of a 

 misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be 

 fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more 

 than twelve months, or both. 



(c) Distribution of Fund moneys among organized 

 Regional Corporations; basis as relative number 

 of Native enrollees in each region; reserve for 

 payment of attorney or other fees; retention of 

 share in Fund until organization of corporation. 



After completion of the roll prejjared pursuant to 

 section 1604 of this title, all money in the Fund, ex- 

 cept money reserved as provided in section 1619 of 

 this title for the payment of attorney and other fees, 

 shall be distributed at the end of each three months 

 of the fiscal year among the Regional Corporations 

 organized pursuant to section 1606 of this title on the 

 basis of the relative numbers of Natives enrolled in 

 each region. The share of a Regional Corporation 

 that has not been organized shall be retained in the 

 Fund until the Regional Corporation is organized. 

 (Pub. L. 92-203, § 6, Dec. 18, 1971, 85 Stat. 690.) 

 Section Reperred to in Other Sections 



This section Is referred to In sections 1602, 1606, 1619, 

 1621 of this title. 



§ 1606. Regional Corporations. 



(a) Division of Alaska into twelve geographic re- 

 gions; common heritage and common interest of 

 region; area of region commensurate with oper- 

 ations of Native association; boundary disputes, 

 arbitration. 

 For purposes of this chapter, the State of Alaska 

 shall be divided by the Secretary within one year 

 after December 18, 1971, into twelve geographic re- 

 gions, with each region composed as far as practica- 

 ble of Natives having a common heritage and sharing 

 common interests. In the absence of good cause 

 shown to the contrary, such regions shall approxi- 

 mate the areas covered by the operations of the 

 following existing Native associations: 



(1) Artie Slope Native Association (Barrow, 

 Point Hope) ; 



(2) Bering Straits Association (Seward Penin- 

 sula, Unalakleet, Saint Lawrence Island) ; 



(3) Northwest Alaska Native Association 

 (Kotzebue) ; 



(4) Association of Village Council Presidents 

 (southwest coast, all villages in the Bethel area, 

 including all villages on the Lower Yukon River 

 and the Lower Kuskokwin River) ; 



(5) Tanana Chiefs' Conference (Koyukuk, 

 Middle and Upper Yukon Rivers, Upper Kuskok- 

 wim, Tanana River) ; 



(6) Cook Inlet Association (Kenai, Tyonek, 

 Eklutna, Iliamna) : 



(7) Bristol Bay Native Association (Dillingham. 

 Upper Alaska Peninsula) ; 



(8) Aleut League (Aleutian Islands, Pribilof 

 Islands and that part of the Alaska Peninsula 

 which is in the Aleut League) ; 



(9) Chugach Native Association (Cordova, 

 Tatitlek, Port Graham, EngUsh Bay, Valdez, 

 and Seward) ; 



(10) Tlingit-Haida Central Council (southeast- 

 em Alaska, including Metlakatla) ; 



(11) Kodiak Area Native Association (all vil- 

 lages on and around Kodiak Island) ; and 



(12) Copper River Native Association (Copper 

 Center, Glennallen, Chitina, Mentasta) . 



Any dispute over the boimdaries of a region or 

 regions shall be resolved by a board of arbitrators 

 consisting of one person selected by each of the 

 Native associations involved, and an additional one 

 or two persons, whichever is needed to make an odd 

 number of arbitrators, such additional person or 

 persons to be selected by the arbitrators selected by 

 the Native associations involved. 



(b) Region mergers; limitation. 



The Secretary may, on request made within one 

 year of December 18, 1971, by representative and 

 responsible leaders of the Native associations listed 

 in subsection (a) of this section, merge two or more 

 of the twelve regions: Provided, That the twelve 

 regions may not be reduced to less than seven, and 

 there may be no fewer than seven Regional Cor- 

 porations. 



(c) Establishment of thirteenth region for nonresi- 

 dent Natives; majority vote; Regional Corpora- 

 tion for thirteenth region. 



If a majority of all eligible Natives eighteen years 

 of age or older who are not permanent residents of 



