{"data":{"id":"us-ne/neb.-rev.-stat.-69-1803","jurisdiction":"us-ne","citation":"Neb. Rev. Stat. § 69-1803","heading":"Neb. Rev. Stat. § 69-1803","body":"As used in the American Indian Arts and Crafts Sales Act, unless the context otherwise requires:\n\n(1) American Indian shall mean any person of at least one-quarter American Indian blood who is enrolled or is a lineal descendant of an American Indian enrolled upon enrollment listing of the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs;\n\n(2) Imitation American Indian arts and crafts shall mean any American-Indian-style arts and crafts which are made by machine, made of synthetic or artificial material, or made by persons who are not American Indians;\n\n(3) Authentic American Indian arts and crafts shall mean any arts and crafts which are handcrafted by American Indians and made of natural materials;\n\n(4) Machine-made shall mean the manufacture of American-Indian-style arts and crafts in mass production by mechanically stamping, casting, shaping, or weaving;\n\n(5) Handcrafted arts and crafts shall mean any arts and crafts produced by individual hand labor through the use of findings, hand tools, and equipment for buffing, polishing, grinding, or drilling;\n\n(6) Findings shall mean only those pieces that come under the category of clips, pins, stems, hooks, and toggles and other materials used in joining two or more parts of a single handcrafted product, but shall not mean bench-made beads, machine-made beads, or other machine-made components;\n\n(7) Spin cast shall mean the casting of jewelry components other than findings by means of centrifugal force;\n\n(8) Natural turquoise shall mean an unadulterated mineral consisting of hydrous basic copper aluminum phosphate which has not been chemically altered or discolored other than by natural alteration or discoloration; and\n\n(9) Unnatural turquoise shall mean any mineral, compound, or substance which is not natural turquoise, including the following: Stabilized turquoise which is turquoise of a soft, porous nature which has been chemically hardened, but not adulterated so as to change the coloration of the natural mineral; treated turquoise which is turquoise which has been chemically altered to produce a change in the coloration of the natural mineral; reconstituted turquoise which is turquoise dust and particles which have been mixed with plastic resins and compressed into a solid form so as to resemble natural turquoise; imitation turquoise which is any artificial compound or other mineral manufactured or treated so as to closely resemble natural turquoise in composition and color; and any other mineral which is represented as turquoise but is not natural turquoise.","path":["NE Code","Chapter 69"],"source_url":"https://nebraskalegislature.gov/laws/statutes.php?statute=69-1803","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:21Z","sha256":"4b9f0fb69a6698b9d45d0ce09d148d855d8cb0901db8c1e35a0ebe0052039f1d","source_id":"us-ne","stale":false,"prev":"us-ne/neb.-rev.-stat.-69-1802","next":"us-ne/neb.-rev.-stat.-69-1804"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}