3.02.040 Definitions

(a) Chief of Police: The highest-ranking law enforcement officer of the Saint Regis Mohawk Tribal Police Department.

(b) Commission: A board comprised of three (3) tribal members of the Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe.

(c) Commissioners: Tribal members appointed by the Tribal Council to serve as Police Commissioners of the Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe.

(d) Conflict of interest: A conflict of interest occurs when a Police Commissioner has a family relationship to or financial interest in any complaint or investigation.

(e) Department: The Saint Regis Mohawk Tribal Police Department.

(f) Franklin County District Attorney: The elected district attorney for Franklin County.

(g) New York State § 114: The law granting the New York State Police Superintendent authority to appoint a tribal police officer as a police officer with the power to exercise state criminal law upon the Saint Regis Mohawk Reservation.

(h) Personnel: All civilian personnel of the Saint Regis Mohawk Tribal Police Department.

(i) Police Officers: All qualified and sworn members of the Saint Regis Mohawk Tribal Police Department.

(j) Relative: As defined in section 305 of the Employee Handbook version 2 approved February 1, 2016, or as amended.

(k) Saint Regis Mohawk Indian Reservation: All lands defined in the Treaty of 1796 and any subsequent lands over which the Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe exercises jurisdiction.

(l) Sharing of Powers Agreements: Agreements between the Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe and another government which allows the Tribal Police Department to exercise the law enforcement authority of another jurisdiction and allows another law enforcement agency to exercise the Tribe's law enforcement powers under the direction of the Tribal Police Department.

(m) Tribal Council: The legislative and executive body of the Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe.

(n) Tribal Police: The Saint Regis Mohawk Tribal Police Department.

(o) Tribe: The Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe.