16-1-101. SOVEREIGN POWER TO REGULATE BUSINESS.

The power to regulate business conducted within the Rosebud Sioux Indian Reservation by all persons, Indian and non-Indian, is an inherent and an essential part of the authority of tribal government. Business regulatory power is an aspect of retained sovereignty of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe except where it has been limited or withdrawn by applicable laws of the United States. The Rosebud Sioux Tribe is a sovereign Indian tribe organized pursuant to the Act of June 18, 1934, 48 Stat. 984, as amended, and governed pursuant to the Constitution and Bylaws ratified on November 23, 1935, and approved by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs on December 20, 1935, as amended from time to time thereafter. Pursuant to the Constitution and Bylaws, the Rosebud Sioux Tribal Council is the governing body of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe. This Chapter is enacted pursuant to the inherent sovereign tribal powers expressly delegated to the Tribal Council in Article IV, Section 1 (f), (h), (i), (k), (m), (n), (t) and (u).