TITLE 73

GENERAL CODE PROVISIONS

CHAPTER 6

APPLICATION OF FOREIGN LAWS

73-602.  Definitions. As used in this chapter:

(1)  "Court" means any court, board, tribunal, arbitration, administrative agency, or other adjudicative or enforcement authority of this state.

(2)  "Foreign law" means any law, legal code, or system adopted by a jurisdiction outside of any state or territory of the United States, including but not limited to international organizations and tribunals, and applied by that jurisdiction’s courts, administrative bodies, or other formal or informal tribunals. For the purposes of this chapter, "foreign law" shall not mean, nor shall it include, any laws of the Indian tribes in this state or the English common law.

(3)  "Religious organization" means any church, seminary, synagogue, temple, mosque, religious order, or religious corporation, association, or society whose identity is distinctive in terms of common religious creed, beliefs, doctrines, practices, or rituals of any faith or denomination, including any organization qualifying as a church or religious organization under section 501(c)(3) or 501(d) of the Internal Revenue Code.

History:

[73-602, added 2026, ch. 183, sec. 1, p. 826.]