The Yurok Court shall apply the laws and ordinances of the Yurok Tribe, including traditional laws of the Tribe, to all matters coming before the Court.

Where no applicable Yurok law, ordinance, or traditional law can be ascertained, the Court may utilize, in the following order, the procedural laws of other federally recognized Indian tribes, federal statutes, federal common law, state statutes, and state common law as guides to decisions of the Court. [Ord. 81, amended, 1/6/2023; Ord. 63, adopted, 12/6/2019.]