Limitations of a Peacemaker

NA Code Title 7, Section 104, Section 302, and Section 303

Tribe: Northern Arapaho Tribe of the Wind River Reservation

Section 104 – Scope. Subject to the limitations under Section
203, a judge of the Tribal Court may appoint a Peacemaker in a
community where the parties to the dispute are members of the
Tribe or Indians residing on the Wind River Indian Reservation,
Wyoming, or where the matter in dispute involves certain personal
and community relationships including, but not limited to, the
following:
(a) Marital disputes and disputes involving family strife;
(b) Disputes among parents and children;
(c) Minor disputes between neighbors as to community
problems such as nuisances, animal trespass or annoyance,
disorderly conduct, breaches of the peace and like matters;
(d) Alcohol use or abuse by family members or neighbors;
(e) Conduct causing harm, annoyance or disunity in the
immediate community;
(f) Minor community business transactions of a sum of One
Thousand Five Hundred Dollars ($1,500) or less; and
(g) Any other matter which the chief or associate judge of
the Tribal Court finds should or can be resolved through the use
of the Peacemaker Court. […] Section 302 – Who Can Request Peacemaking. Persons who are
injured, hurt or aggrieved by the actions of another may request
the services of the Peacemaker Court if the parties, injury and
dispute are subject to the jurisdiction of the Peacemaker Court. […] Section 303 – Place of Peacemaking. Peacemaking must take place
in the area, location or region of all the parties involved in
the dispute, or the location of the person complained of where
the parties live in more than one area, location or region.
Where more than two areas are involved, the Tribal Court may
designate the location where the matter will be heard.

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