Opinion ID: 484900
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Heading Rank: 2

Heading: Expiration of the Trust Patents

Text: 15 The District Court ruled that the trust patents under which the allottees hold their lands would expire on October 11, 1986; thus, the court reasoned, once the patents expired and the allottees became subject to all laws of the State of California, the rent control ordinances would apply to the De Anza mobile home park regardless of appellants' status as tribal members. 25 U.S.C. Sec. 349. 16 The trust patents were issued October 12, 1961, for a period of 25 years. See 25 U.S.C. Sec. 348. The District Court failed to recognize, however, that the Secretary of the Interior, on July 20, 1983, extended the trust period to January 1, 1989. 25 C.F.R. app. 1 (1986) (text at 48 Fed.Reg. 34,026 (1983)). 3 The trust status clearly having been extended, the District Court's ruling was in error.