54.02.010 Definitions

(a) Agricultural or forestry activities means those normal agricultural or silvicultural practices that do not disturb the human remains in a known or marked burial site or the surface characteristics of a burial site.

(b) Burial site means any place of interment, by any means, natural or a physically prepared location, whether originally below, on, or above the surface of the earth, where human remains or associated funerary objects are deposited, as part of the death rites or ceremonies of the Tribe.

(c) Cemetery means a burial site in which two or more individuals were interred.

(d) Cultural patrimony is defined as an object having ongoing historical, traditional, or cultural importance central to the Tribe or its culture.

(e) Duly authorized law enforcement official means any law enforcement personnel of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians Police Department or any LAW Enforcement officer delegated authority to enforce the laws of the Tribe pursuant to chapter 15, section 3, "Cooperative Law Enforcement Arrangements."

(f) Disturb includes defacing, mutilating, injuring, exposing, removing, destroying, desecrating, or molesting in any way.

(g) Grave goods mean objects, that as a part of the death rite or ceremony of a culture, are reasonably believed to have been placed with individual human remains either at the time of death or later.

(h) Human remains mean any part of the body or deceased person in any stage of decomposition.

(i) Person means any individual or entity, including a governmental operation or political subdivision of a state or Tribe, or any interstate body and shall include each department, agency, and instrumentality of the United States.

(j) THPO means the Tribal Historic Preservation Officer.