This chapter and the various parts, sections, subsections, sentences, phrases, clauses hereof are hereby declared to be severable. If any part, section, subsection, sentence, phrase, clause is adjudged unconstitutional or invalid, it is hereby declared that the remainder of this chapter shall not be affected.
A. 
History. As a result of the Menominee Restoration Act, 25 U.S.C. §§ 903-903f,[1] and the work of the Menominee Restoration Committee, Menominee specific provisions were added to 25 CFR Part 11 and made applicable to the Menominee Reservation Court of Indian Offenses by 43 Fed. 40804 (September 13, 1978). Section 11.97ME read, "[u]ntil such time as the Menominee Tribe enacts its own juvenile code, the provisions of the Wisconsin State laws relating to juveniles, Wisconsin Statutes §§ 48.12-48.47, 48.78, 48.81-48.97, and Chapter 54...." While all of the child and juvenile cases have been under Tribal law, this chapter is the enactment of the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin's own Code.
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Editor's Note: 25 U.S.C. § 903 et seq. was omitted pursuant to editorial reclassification of provisions of Title 25, Chapters 14 and 19, United States Code.
B. 
Upon the original effective date, June 1, 2020, of this chapter, Sections 11.29 Tribal Custom Adoption, 11.36 Juvenile Delinquency, and Section 11.97ME of Menominee Tribe Ordinance 79-14, codified in Chapter 120, Judiciary, Attachment 1, Chapter 124, Juvenile Justice Code, and Chapter 368, Health and Family, Article I, Group Foster Homes, were repealed.
C. 
Any references to Chapter 124, Juvenile Justice Code, throughout the remainder of the Tribal Code shall be replaced with Chapter 278, Children's Code.
A. 
Ordinance No. 18-11, codified as Chapter 278, shall not take effect until June 1, 2020. A provisional report on the status of the Code shall be provided within one year of its adoption to the Menominee Tribal Legislature.
B. 
Amendments to this chapter shall take effect upon final approval by the Menominee Tribal Legislature.