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The Robinson Rancheria of Pomo Indians of California (“tribe”) adopts this code to promote the welfare and safety of all persons who use the roadways and highways within the jurisdiction of the tribe’s reservation (“reservation”) and to provide for fair and efficient disposition of civil traffic infractions. The tribe finds and declares that Public Law 280 did not divest the tribe of its inherent sovereign authority to establish our own laws and enforce them.

This code will be liberally construed to give full effect to the purposes for which it was enacted and shall be interpreted and construed to preserve the peace, safety, health and general welfare of the people of the tribe and those on the reservation. Furthermore, the code shall be interpreted and construed to:

(1) Preserve and promote the peace, order, harmony, safety, health and general welfare of the people of the tribe and those permitted to enter or reside on the reservation;

(2) Safeguard individual rights and community standards;

(3) Secure rights and powers inherent in the tribe’s sovereign status;

(4) Exert jurisdiction over matters essential to the tribe’s self-determination and self-governance;

(5) Treat all parties fairly and without prejudice by protecting individual rights guaranteed by the “Indian Civil Rights Act” and by the traditions, customs and laws of the tribe; and

(6) Resolve infractions fairly and efficiently. [Ord. 12-15-2021B § 1.101, 2021.]