11.01.180 Employees Confined in Institutions; Payment of Benefits

In case an employee is adjudged insane or incompetent, or convicted of a felony, and is confined in a public institution and has dependents wholly dependent upon the employee for support a person, whose dependency is determined as if the employee were deceased, compensation payable during the period of the employee's confinement may be paid to the employee and the employee's dependents, in such manner, for such time and in such amount as the Tribal Council may determine.