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a) No person who is a candidate for or elected to any Tribal office, or is to be appointed by the Yurok Council to any position of trust shall ever have been convicted of gross misconduct, been terminated from employment with the Tribe for theft, fraud, embezzlement, or have been convicted of a crime requiring registration as a sex offender and/or have been convicted or exonerated due to successful affirmative defense to murder. No person who is a candidate for or elected to any Tribal office, or is to be or has been appointed by the Yurok Council to any position of trust shall, at the time of candidacy, election or appointment have been convicted of any violent felony or crime of moral turpitude within ten (10) years of the date of election or appointment, and every candidate for election or appointment to any Tribal office or position who ever has been convicted, or found not guilty due to an affirmative defense except self-defense, of any felony or crime of moral turpitude shall, upon announcement of his/her candidacy or application for appointment, fully disclose to the Yurok Council the fact and date of each such conviction, the court in which convicted, the sentence imposed and the place and manner in which the sentence was served or otherwise discharged. Each candidate for elected or appointed office shall be subject to a criminal background check.

b) Any person who, upon or subsequent to announcing his/her candidacy for election to any Tribal office or applying for any appointed position of trust, is formally charged with, but not yet convicted of, any crime of violence, or moral turpitude, shall disclose to the Tribal Council and/or the Election Committee the fact of such prosecution upon becoming aware of the pendency thereof.

c) Any person required to make disclosure of a criminal conviction or prosecution hereunder who fails to do so within thirty (30) days may be barred or removed from the office or appointed position for which the person was a candidate when the required disclosure was not made.

d) Any elected Tribal officer or appointed Tribal official who is formally charged with a violent felony or crime of moral turpitude while in office shall be immediately suspended from office, effective with the date of initiation of such prosecution. If said officer or official is acquitted or the prosecution is terminated without a conviction, and provided that upon such termination of prosecution the term of office to which the officer or official was elected or appointed has not yet expired, the officer or official shall be reinstated to serve the remainder of his/her term of office or appointment.