Opinion No. (2000)

BILL LOCKYER Attorney General ANTHONY S. DA VIGO Deputy Attorney General THE HONORABLE MARSHALL S. RUDOLPH, COUNTY COUNSEL, MONO COUNTY, has requested an opinion on the following questions: 1. Is land owned by an Indian Housing Authority pursuant to a grant deed from the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, currently in use as a federally assisted low-income housing project for Native Americans, which is neither an Indian reservation nor an Indian allotment, a "dependent Indian community" under the circumstances presented? 2. Do the police and taxing powers of the state and its political subdivisions that are applicable generally to housing authorities also apply to the land of an Indian Housing Authority which is not "Indian country" but is currently in use as a federally assisted low-income housing project for Native Americans? CONCLUSIONS 1. The land owned by an Indian Housing Authority pursuant to a grant deed from the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, currently in use as a federally assisted low-income housing project for Native Americans, which is neither an Indian reservation nor an Indian allotment, is not a "dependent Indian…