{"data":{"id":"us/25-cfr-81.6","jurisdiction":"us","citation":"25 CFR 81.6","heading":"How is a Secretarial election requested?","body":"To request a Secretarial election:\n(a) The tribe or petitioner must submit:\n(1) A duly adopted tribal resolution, tribal ordinance, other appropriate tribal document requesting the Secretary to call a Secretarial election, or, in the absence of an existing governing document or if authorized or required by the existing governing documents, a petition that has been verified by the Bureau as having the minimum number of required signatures of tribal members; and\n(2) The exact document or amended language to be voted on; and\n(b) The tribe must submit a list in an electronically sortable format with names, last known addresses, dates of birth, and voting district, if any, of all tribal members who:\n(1) Will be 18 years of age or older within 120 days of the date of the request; and\n(2) Meet any other voting restrictions imposed by the tribe's governing document for voting in the Secretarial election.","path":["Title 25—Indians","CHAPTER I—BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR","SUBCHAPTER F—TRIBAL GOVERNMENT","PART 81—SECRETARIAL ELECTION PROCEDURES","Subpart C—Provisions Applicable to All Secretarial Elections"],"source_url":"https://www.ecfr.gov/api/versioner/v1/full/2026-08-25/title-25.xml","current_through":"2026-08-25","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T02:24:59Z","sha256":"545bb42bdfbe507fa392db3e587a4f033113285383d7181f34b2a5703da846e6","source_id":"us-cfr","stale":true,"prev":"us/25-cfr-81.5","next":"us/25-cfr-81.7"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}