(a) If a person has been charged, whether by indictment, information, or otherwise by the United States, a tribe, or any state, with voluntary manslaughter or homicide in connection with a decedent’s death, then any and all trust or restricted land or trust personalty that would otherwise pass to that person from the decedent’s estate shall not pass or be distributed until the charges have been resolved in accordance with the provisions of this section.

(b) Upon dismissal or withdrawal of the charge, or upon a verdict of not guilty, such real land and personalty shall pass as if no charge had been filed or made.

(c) Upon conviction of such person, and the exhaustion of all appeals, if any, the trust and restricted land and trust personalty in the estate shall pass in accordance with this section.

(d) This section shall not be considered penal in nature, but it shall be construed broadly in order to effect the policy that no person shall be allowed to profit by their own wrong, wherever they may commit it. [Ord. 52 § 9403, amended, 4/27/2023; Ord. 50A § 9703, amended, 6/22/2017.]