Candidates for Tribal Council must pass a criminal background check. Potential candidates who have been convicted of a felony involving murder, manslaughter, rape, assault with intent to kill, burglary, child or elder abuse, assault resulting in serious bodily injury, theft, fraud or embezzlement, during his or her term of office or within ten (10) years prior to the election, shall be ineligible to run for office or serve on the Tribal Council. However, persons who have completed their sentence for such conviction at least ten (10) years before the date of the election in which they intend to run for office may file as candidates. Potential candidates who have been removed from Tribal Council office for gross misconduct, terminated from employment with the Tribe for theft, fraud or embezzlement, or who have been convicted of a crime requiring registration as a sex offender, shall be ineligible to run for office or serve on the Tribal Council.