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BILLING CODE 4184–PL–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Indian Affairs 

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Confederated Tribes of the Colville 

Reservation; Amendments to Colville 

Packaged Spirits Regulation 

(Ordinance) 

AGENCY: Bureau of Indian Affairs, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This notice publishes 

amendments to the Confederated Tribes 

of the Colville Reservation’s Chapter 6– 

2 Packaged Spirits Regulation (Liquor 

Ordinance). This Regulation amends 

and supersedes the existing 

Confederated Tribes of the Colville 

Reservation’s Title 21 Colville Tribal 

Code—Colville Liquor Control Code 

enacted by the Colville Business 

Council in 1983. 

DATES: This ordinance shall become 

effective May 12, 2022. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Greg Norton, Tribal Government 

Specialist, Northwest Regional Office, 

Bureau of Indian Affairs, 911 Northeast 

11th Avenue, Portland, Oregon 97232, 

Telephone: (503) 231–6702, Fax: (503) 

231–2201. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant 

to the Act of August 15, 1953, Public 

Law 83–277, 67 stat. 586, 18 U.S.C. 

1161, as interpreted by the Supreme 

Court in Rice v. Rehner, 463 U.S. 713 

(1983), the Secretary of the Interior shall 

certify and publish in the Federal 

Register notice of adopted liquor control 

ordinances for the purpose of regulating 

liquor transactions in Indian country. 

On September 1, 2019, the Colville 

Business Council duly adopted the 

Confederated Tribes of the Colville 

Reservation’s Chapter 6–2 Packaged 

Spirits Regulation (Liquor Ordinance), 

replacing the existing Confederated 

Tribes of the Colville Reservation’s Title 

21 Colville Tribal Code—Colville Liquor 

Control Code by enactment of 

Resolution 2019–542. On October 10th, 

2019, the Colville Business Council 

duly adopted additional amendments by 

enactment of Resolution 2019–651. On 

February 8, 2022, the Colville Business 

Council duly adopted final amendments 

by enactment of Resolution 2022–75. 

This Federal Register Notice 

comprehensively amends and 

supersedes the existing Confederated 

Tribes of the Colville Reservation’s Title 

21 Colville Tribal Code—Colville Liquor 

Control Code enacted by the Colville 

Business Council, which was published 

in the Federal Register on June 30, 1983 

(48 FR 30189). 

This notice is published in 

accordance with the authority delegated 

by the Secretary of the Interior to the 

Assistant Secretary—Indian Affairs. I 

certify that the Colville Business 

Council of the Confederated Tribes of 

the Colville Reservation duly adopted 

these amendments to the Community’s 

Title 14—Alcoholic Beverages 

Ordinance on September 1, 2019, and 

October 10, 2019, and February 8, 2022. 

Wizipan Garriott, 

Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary—Indian 

Affairs, Exercising by delegation the authority 

of the Assistant Secretary—Indian Affairs. 

Chapter 6–2 Packaged Spirits 

Regulation 

6–2–1 Name 

This Chapter shall be known as the 

Colville Packaged Spirits Regulation 

Chapter, and shall replace Title 21 of 

the Colville Tribal Code, ‘‘Liquor 

Control Code’’. 

6–2–2 Constitutional Authority 

The Colville Business Council, under 

Article V of the Constitution of the 

Confederated Tribes of the Colville 

Indian Reservation, and the Colville 

Tribal Code (CTC) possesses the 

authority to adopt this Chapter. 

6–2–3 Findings 

(a) The introduction, possession, and 

sale of liquor on Indian reservations has 

been clearly recognized as a matter of 

special concern to Indian tribes and to 

the United States for more than 150 

years. United States v. Sandoval, 231 

U.S. 28 (1913); 18 U.S.C. 1161; 18 U.S.C. 

1154. 

(b) In 1953 the Business Council of 

the Colville Confederated Tribes acting 

under its inherent powers as the 

government of the Colville Indian 

Reservation and under powers delegated 

to it by the United States adopted a 

resolution permitting the sale and 

possession of alcoholic beverages within 

the boundaries of the reservation, 

subject to the laws of the State of 

Washington. 

(c) Under present conditions the 

Business Council of the Colville 

Confederated Tribes finds it necessary 

to more closely control the sale, 

distribution, and possession of alcoholic 

beverages within the boundaries of the 

Colville Indian Reservation. The sale, 

distribution, and possession of such 

beverages has become a major or sole 

portion of the trade of many businesses 

which have been established on the 

Colville Indian Reservation affecting the 

people of the reservation and the 

schools, churches, and other agencies of 

social betterment which have been 

established on the reservation. 

(d) Federal policy has supported the 

Tribes’ long term goal of self-governance 

and self-determination. Given that 

policy, and in light of the Tribes’ unique 

geographical challenges and its 

experience regulating other highly 

regulated areas, such as gambling and 

cigarette sales, the Tribes is well suited 

to effectively regulate and enforce liquor 

laws in its Indian Country, in 

collaboration with the Washington State 

Liquor Cannabis Board (WSLCB), 

consistent with 18 U.S.C. 1161. 

(e) The Business Council finds that 

the present system of regulation by 

adoption of State law has been found to 

be inadequate to the needs of the 

members of the Colville Confederated 

Tribes and the residents of the Colville 

Indian Reservation, and has failed to 

provide sufficient prevention, treatment, 

and ancillary services to treat alcohol 

abuse on the Reservation and to address 

its negative impacts on those who abuse 

alcohol as well as their families and 

children. 

(f) The Business Council finds that 

Tribal regulation of the introduction, 

sale, distribution, and possession of 

packaged spirits on the reservation is 

necessary to protect the health, security, 

and welfare of all persons and property 

on the reservation. 

(g) The Colville Business Council 

finds that alcohol related criminal and 

family problems are the single greatest 

cause of social conflict among the 

people of the Colville Indian 

Reservation. 

(h) The Business Council further finds 

it necessary to raise additional revenues 

for the prevention and treatment of 

alcohol abuse and Tribal Law 

Enforcement agencies and to provide for 

their expansion and increased 

efficiency. 

(i) A Memorandum of Agreement 

(MOA) with the State of Washington 

governing packaged liquor sales and 

distribution on the reservation will 

increase the ability of the tribal 

government to control the reservation 

liquor distribution, sale, and possession, 

and at the same time will provide an 

important source of revenue for the 


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continued operation of governmental 

services to the residents of the 

reservation. 

(j) The Business Council further finds 

that taxation of packaged spirits sold to 

non-Indian purchasers by licensed 

Tribal Enterprises in the Tribes’ Indian 

Country is a matter separate from liquor 

licensure and shall be governed by a 

duly-executed MOA between the Tribes 

and the State Department of Revenue 

(DOR). 

(k) For these reasons, the Business 

Council finds it necessary to enact this 

Chapter establishing a Tribal Liquor 

Administrator and regulating the 

introduction, sale, taxation, distribution, 

and possession of packaged spirits on 

the Colville Indian Reservation. 

6–2–4 Introduction, Sale, Distribution, 

and Possession of Packaged Spirits 

The introduction, sale, distribution, 

and possession of liquor shall be lawful 

within the Indian country under the 

jurisdiction of the Confederated Tribes 

of the Colville Indian Reservation and 

within the exterior boundaries of the 

Colville Indian Reservation only when 

such activities are in conformity with 

this Chapter. Such introduction, sale, 

distribution, and possession shall be in 

conformity with the laws of the State of 

Washington when required by 18 U.S.C. 

1161, enacted August 15, 1953, and as 

provided in this Chapter. 

6–2–5 Conformity With Federal Laws 

This Chapter shall govern the 

introduction, sale, distribution, and 

possession of packaged spirits within 

the Colville Indian Reservation pursuant 

to federal law; Resolution 1953–50 

passed on October 9, 1953, by the 

Colville Business Council and 

published in the Federal Register, 

Volume 18, No. 230, on November 25, 

1953, and shall supersede and amend 

all prior enactments of the Business 

Council inconsistent with this Chapter. 

6–2–6 Conflict With Prior Resolutions 

This Chapter shall supersede and 

amend all Resolutions of the Business 

Council inconsistent with this Chapter. 

6–2–7 Definitions 

(a) ‘‘Administrator’’ or ‘‘Liquor 

Administrator’’ means the Tribal Liquor 

Administrator of the Packaged Spirits 

Code in the Accounting Department of 

the Colville Tribes. 

(b) ‘‘Distribute’’ means to deliver or 

sell liquor products prior to retail sale. 

(c) ‘‘Employee’’ means any person 

employed by the Liquor Administrator. 

(d) ‘‘Enforcement officer’’ means the 

administrator or any other enforcement 

personnel authorized to administer or 

enforce this Chapter. 

(e) ‘‘Indian Country’’ consistent with 

the definition in 18 U.S.C. 1151, means: 

(1) All land within the exterior 

boundaries of the Colville Reservation, 

notwithstanding the issuance of any 

patent, and, including rights-of-way 

running through the reservation; and 

(2) all Indian allotments or other 

lands held in trust for a Colville tribal 

member or the Colville Tribes, or 

otherwise subject to a restriction against 

alienation imposed by the United States, 

the Indian titles to which have not been 

extinguished, including rights-of-way 

running through the same, wherever 

located. 

(f) ‘‘Liquor’’ means the four varieties 

of liquor (alcohol, spirits, wine, and 

beer) and all fermented, spirituous, 

vinous, or malt liquor, or combinations 

thereof, and mixed liquor, a part of 

which is fermented, spirituous, vinous 

or malt liquor, or otherwise intoxicating; 

and every liquor or solid or semi-solid 

or other substance, patented or not, 

containing alcohol, spirits, wine or beer, 

and all drinks or drinkable liquids and 

all preparations or mixtures capable of 

human consumption, and any liquid, 

semi-solid, solid, or other substance, 

which contains more than one percent 

of alcohol by weight shall be 

conclusively deemed to be intoxicating. 

(g) ‘‘Liquor Account’’ means the 

account established by the Liquor 

Administrator for the collection of fees 

and taxes on the sale of packaged spirits 

on the Colville Reservation or in the 

Tribes’ Indian country pursuant to the 

approved Memorandum of agreement. 

(h) ‘‘Liquor Tax Compact’’ means any 

packaged spirits tax compact the Tribes 

may enter into pursuant to applicable 

law. 

(i) ‘‘Memorandum of Agreement’’ 

means the approved Agreement entered 

into between the Colville Tribes and the 

Washington state Liquor Cannabis 

Board concerning the authorization of 

liquor sales on the Colville Reservation. 

(j) ‘‘Package’’ means any container or 

receptacle used for holding liquor. 

(k) ‘‘Packaged Spirits’’ means spirits 

sold to the consumer in an unopened 

container for consumption off the 

premises of the seller. 

(l) ‘‘Public place’’ means streets and 

alleys of incorporated cities and towns; 

state, county, township or tribal 

highways or roads; buildings and 

grounds used for school purposes; rodeo 

grounds; parks; tribal ceremonial 

grounds; public dance halls and 

grounds adjacent thereto; those parts of 

establishments where beer may be sold 

under this Chapter, soft drink 

establishments, public buildings, public 

meeting halls, lobbies, halls and dining 

rooms of hotels, restaurants, theatres, 

stores, garages and filling stations which 

are open to and are generally used by 

the public and to which the public is 

permitted to have unrestricted access; 

railroad trains, stages, and other public 

conveyances of all kinds and character, 

and the depots and waiting rooms used 

in conjunction therewith which are 

open to unrestricted use and access by 

the public; publicly-owned bathing 

beaches, parks or playgrounds; and all 

other places of like or similar nature to 

which the general public has 

unrestricted right of access, and which 

are generally used by the public. 

(m) ‘‘Regulations’’ means regulations 

made by the Administrator under the 

power conferred by this Chapter. 

(n) ‘‘Reservation’’ means the Colville 

Indian Reservation, including all land 

and waters within the exterior 

boundaries thereof, and off-Reservation 

lands held in trust for the Tribes or 

individual Indians. 

(o) ‘‘Sale’’ and ‘‘Sell’’ means 

exchange, barter, and traffic; and also 

include the selling or supplying or 

distributing, by any means whatsoever, 

of packaged spirits. 

(p) ‘‘Spirits’’ means any beverage 

which contains alcohol obtained by 

distillation, including wines exceeding 

seventeen (17%) percent of alcohol by 

weight. 

(u) ‘‘Tribal Court’’ means the Tribal 

Court of the Colville Tribes. 

(v) ‘‘Tribes’’ means the Confederated 

Tribes of the Colville Indian 

Reservation, Washington. 

6–2–8 Sale of Liquor 

(a) Minimum Age of 21: Except as 

otherwise provided by tribal or state 

law, an employee in a licensed outlet or 

tavern may sell liquor to any person 

twenty-one (21) years of age or older for 

beverage purposes. Violation of this 

section is a Class B offense pursuant to 

section 3–1–94 of this Code. 

(b) Proof of Minimum Age: Where 

there may be a question of a person’s 

right to purchase liquor by reason of his 

age, such person shall be required to 

present any one of the following 

officially issued cards of identification 

which shows his correct age, bears his 

signature, and bears his or her 

photograph: 

(1) Colville Tribal identification card; 

(2) Washington State Tribal 

Enrollment Card (no expiration date 

required), or other approved Tribal 

enrollment identification cards; 

(3) ‘‘Identicard’’ issued by the 

Washington State Department of 

Licensing, or a valid Washington State 

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(4) Driver’s License, Instruction 

Permit, or I.D. Card issued by an U.S. 

State, U.S. Territory and District of 

Columbia; 

(5) Driver’s License, Instruction 

permit, or I.D. Card issued by any 

Canadian Province; 

(6) Official Passport, passport card, or 

NEXUS card; 

(7) U.S. Armed Forces I.D. Card 

(Encrypted signature acceptable); 

(8) Merchant Marine I.D. Card issued 

by the U.S. Coast Guard. 

(c) Regulation Regarding 

Identification: The Liquor Administrator 

may adopt such regulations as it deems 

proper covering the acceptance of such 

identification cards. 

(d) Sealed Packages May Be 

Required—Exception: The Liquor 

Administrator shall by regulation 

prescribe that any/all liquors other than 

malt liquor be delivered to any 

purchaser at a tribally licensed outlet 

only in a packaged sealed with the 

official tax stamp. 

(e) Consumption on Premises: No 

employee in a licensed liquor outlet 

shall open or consume, or allow to be 

opened or consumed any liquor on the 

store premises. 

(f) Record of Purchases: All records 

whatsoever of the Administrator 

showing purchases of packaged spirits 

shall be deemed confidential, and may 

only be disclosed as required pursuant 

to the approved Memorandum of 

Agreement with the State of 

Washington. 

(g) Intoxicated Persons: No tribally 

licensed outlet or tavern shall sell liquor 

to any buyer when, from the physical 

appearance of the buyer at the time of 

the sale, it could be reasonably believed 

or understood that the buyer was 

intoxicated. Any owner of a liquor 

outlet or tavern found to have made a 

sale to a buyer by the Colville Tribal 

Court, shall be, in any action for civil 

damages against the buyer and owner, 

jointly and severally liable in damages 

for any injury for which the buyer is 

found liable, and which injury occurs 

within eight (8) hours after the sale by 

the outlet or tavern to the buyer. 

6–2–9 Colville Tribal Liquor 

Administrator 

(a) Regulation by Administrator: For 

the purpose of carrying into effect the 

provisions of this Chapter according to 

their true intent or of supplying any 

deficiency therein, the Administrator 

may make such regulations and issue 

such orders not inconsistent with the 

spirit of this Chapter as are deemed 

necessary or advisable. All such 

regulations and orders shall have the 

same force and effect as if incorporated 

in this Chapter. Without limiting the 

generality of the foregoing provisions it 

is declared that the power of the 

Administrator to make regulations and 

issue orders shall include the power to: 

(1) Regulate the equipment, 

management, and nature of books and 

records and reports concerning stores 

and warehouses in which packaged 

spirits are sold or kept; 

(2) Prescribe the hours during which 

liquor stores shall be open; 

(3) Prescribe forms to be used for 

purposes of this Chapter or regulations; 

(4) Prescribe the manner of giving and 

serving notices required by this Chapter 

or regulations, where not otherwise 

provided for in this Chapter; 

(5) Prescribe the manner and 

regulation of collection of the share of 

licensing fees owed by each location 

selling packaged spirits pursuant to a 

license issued under the Memorandum 

of Agreement; 

(6) Determine the localities within the 

Reservation where liquor stores or 

outlets shall be established and the 

number and situation of such stores 

within each locality pursuant to the 

approved Memorandum of Agreement; 

(7) Execute or cause to be executed all 

contracts, papers, and documents in the 

name of the Administrator under such 

regulations as may apply. 

(b) Immunity from Personal Liability: 

Neither the Liquor Administrator nor 

any employee thereof shall be 

personally liable in any action at law for 

damages sustained by any person 

because of any action performed or done 

or omitted to be done by the Liquor 

Administrator or any employee of the 

Liquor Administrator in the 

performance of his or her duties and the 

administration of this Chapter. 

(c) Preemption of Field by Tribes: No 

municipality, city, town, or county, nor 

the State of Washington shall have 

power to impose an excise or any other 

tax upon packaged spirits as defined in 

this Chapter, or to govern or license the 

sale or distribution thereof in any 

manner within the Colville Indian 

Reservation, except as permitted in the 

regulations of the Liquor Administrator 

and/or pursuant to the Memorandum of 

Agreement. 

(d) Inspection of Records: For the 

purpose of obtaining information 

concerning any matter related to the 

administration or enforcement of this 

Chapter, the Liquor Administrator, or 

any person appointed by it in writing 

for the purpose, may inspect the books 

and records of any licensed seller of 

packaged spirits doing business on the 

Reservation. Every person who neglects 

or refuses to produce or submit for 

inspection any records referred to in 

this section when requested to do so by 

the Liquor Administrator or a person 

appointed by it, shall be guilty of a 

violation of this Chapter. 

6–2–10 Packaged Spirits Account 

(a) Creation of Account: There shall 

be a ‘‘Packaged Spirits Account’’ which 

shall hold all taxes, fees, penalties, 

forfeitures, and all other monies, income 

or revenue received under this Chapter 

by the Liquor Administrator. 

(b) Custodian of Liquor Account: The 

Liquor Administrator shall be custodian 

of the Liquor Account. 

(c) Disbursements: Disbursements 

from the fund shall be on authorization 

of the Colville Business Council at the 

request of the Liquor Administrator, and 

may be made only for tribal programs or 

projects related to the prevention or 

treatment of alcohol abuse, including 

ancillary services for families and 

children affected by a family member’s 

alcohol abuse. 

(d) Use of Revenue: All revenue 

derived from the sale of packaged spirits 

shall be used in accordance with this 

section. All revenue shall be specially 

earmarked and used only for the 

following purposes: 

(1) The prevention and treatment of 

alcohol abuse and related programs; and 

(2) Tribal Colville Law Enforcement 

agencies to provide for their expansion 

and increased efficiency. 

6–2–11 Pharmaceutical Preparations, 

Patent Medicines, Denatured Alcohol 

Nothing in this Chapter shall apply to 

or prevent sale, purchase or 

consumption of: 

(a) Any pharmaceutical preparation 

containing liquor which is prepared by 

a druggist according to a formula of the 

pharmacopeia of the United States, or 

the dispensatory of the United States; or 

(b) Any proprietary or patent 

medicine; or 

(c) Wood alcohol or denatured 

alcohol, except in the case of the sale, 

purchase, or consumption of wood 

alcohol or denatured alcohol for 

beverage purposes, either alone or 

combined with any other liquid or 

substance. 

6–2–12 Distribution of Packaged 

Spirits on the Colville Indian 

Reservation 

(a) All persons, businesses, or entities 

of any sort distributing packaged spirits 

to businesses or persons within the 

boundaries of the Colville Indian 

Reservation or Reservation lands held in 

trust for the Tribes or individual Indians 

are subject to the provisions of this 

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approved Memoranda of Agreement as 

required. 

(b) Any person or entity which does 

distribute packaged spirits to any person 

or business located within the 

boundaries of the Colville Indian 

Reservation at a time when such person 

or entity is not validly licensed to do 

business shall be in violation of this 

Chapter and in violation of the 

Memorandum of Agreement and/or 

other applicable law. 

(c) Persons or entities holding licenses 

for the sale of packaged spirits under 

this section shall be required to subject 

themselves in writing to the civil 

jurisdiction of the Colville Confederated 

Tribes and its Tribal Court for the 

purposes of this Chapter. 

6–2–13 Taxes and Fees 

(a) A tax amounting to precisely the 

same amount of tax collected by the 

State of Washington on the same or 

similar packaged spirits item shall be 

assessed pursuant to the provisions of 

an approved Memorandum of 

Agreement or fully executed Liquor 

Compact or with the State of 

Washington. 

(b) Taxes collected by the Liquor 

Administrator shall be held in the 

Liquor Account. 

6–2–14 Sovereign Immunity Preserved 

Nothing in this Chapter is intended or 

shall be construed as a waiver of the 

sovereign immunity of the Confederated 

Tribes of the Colville Reservation. The 

Administrator, its staff, any manager or 

employee of the Tribes, or Tribal 

Enterprises is specifically prohibited 

from attempting to waive the inherent 

sovereign immunity of the Colville 

Confederated Tribes without the express 

written consent of the Colville 

Confederated Tribes. 

6–2–15 Other Business 

A licensee under this Chapter may 

conduct other business simultaneously 

with the management of a liquor 

products outlet, subject to applicable 

laws and regulations. The other 

business may be conducted on the same 

premises. 

6–2–16 Operating Without a License 

No person shall operate a liquor 

product outlet or tavern within the 

boundaries of the Colville Indian 

Reservation without first obtaining a 

current and valid license; persons in 

violation of this section shall be 

considered to be in violation of all 

federal Indian liquor laws and 

regulations as well as in violation of this 

Chapter. 

6–2–17 Violations 

(a) Pursuant to the provisions of the 

Memorandum of Agreement regarding 

enforcement, the Administrator of the 

Colville Confederated Tribes shall have 

the authority to enforce this Chapter. 

(1) Such enforcement must conform 

with Chapter 1–5 Colville Tribal Civil 

Rights Act. 

(2) Such enforcement must conform 

with Chapter 2–1 Criminal Actions, 

Chapter 2–2 Civil Actions, and Chapter 

2–3 Infractions; Field Bonds; Other Civil 

Offenses and Forfeitures. 

(b) Non-payment of Taxes: 

(1) Any person or entity within or 

doing business within the boundaries of 

the Colville Indian Reservation who 

does not pay the taxes required to be 

paid under this Chapter shall be 

proceeded against in the Tribal Court of 

the Colville Confederated Tribes. 

(2) The Tribal Court of the Colville 

Confederated Tribes is empowered to 

seize, attach, and forfeit to the Colville 

Confederated Tribes any property 

belonging to any person found by the 

Tribal Court to have failed to pay 

applicable fees and taxes due and owing 

under this Chapter; provided that the 

amount of property forfeited shall not be 

of a wholesale value greater than the 

amount of applicable fees or taxes 

alleged or found to be due and owing. 

(3) Persons sued under this Section by 

the Administrator shall be entitled to a 

full evidentiary and adversarial hearing 

before the Tribal Court of the Colville 

Confederated Tribes, in accordance with 

Chapter 1–1, Chapter 1–2, Chapter 2–1 

(if applicable), Chapter 2–2 (if 

applicable), and Chapter 2–3 (if 

applicable) of the Colville Tribal Code, 

before any order or forfeiture may be 

issued. Persons sued under this Section 

shall have the burden of proving that 

they do not owe any fees or taxes or that 

they have been assessed a greater 

amount of fees or taxes than they 

lawfully owe under this Chapter. 

(c) Other Violations: The 

Administrator shall bring all persons or 

entities suspected to have violated any 

provision of this Chapter, except nonpayment of fees or taxes due, to the 

attention of appropriate tribal or state 

law enforcement officials. With regard 

to Colville Tribal members alleged to 

have violated a provision or provisions 

of this Chapter other than non-payment 

of fees or taxes, the Tribal Court of the 

Colville Confederated Tribes shall have 

jurisdiction over the matter. 

(d) Violation of this Chapter may 

result in the loss of an entities liquor 

license, or prohibition of the individual/ 

entity from obtaining a license in the 

future. The Administrator is empowered 

to revoke the liquor license of any entity 

who is in violation of this Chapter so 

long as due process is afforded to the 

individual/entity pursuant to Chapter 

1–5 of this Code. 

6–2–18 Other Agreements 

Notwithstanding anything to the 

contrary, if the Colville Tribes enters 

into a liquor compact with the State of 

Washington, relating to alcohol 

wholesaling, distribution, or retail sales 

which are not subject to an existing 

tribal-state Memorandum of Agreement 

or compact, the Tribal Code will control 

over conflicting provisions. 

6–2–19 Effective Date 

This Chapter shall take effect 30 days 

after approval by the Secretary and 

publication in the Federal Register. 

6–2–20 Severability 

If one or more provisions of this 

Chapter is/are deemed invalid by a 

court of competent jurisdiction, the 

remainder of this Chapter will remain in 

full force and effect. 

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BILLING CODE 4337–15–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Indian Affairs 

[223A2100DD/AAKC001030/ 

A0A501010.999900] 

Indian Gaming; Approval of Forest 

County Potawatomi Community TribalState Class III Gaming Compact With 

the State of Wisconsin 

AGENCY: Bureau of Indian Affairs, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This notice publishes the 

approval of the 2022 Amendment and 

Extension to the Forest County 

Potawatomi Community of Wisconsin 

and the State of Wisconsin Class III 

Gaming Compact (Amendment) 

providing for Class III gaming between 

the Forest County Potawatomi 

Community (Tribe) and the State of 

Wisconsin (State). 

DATES: The Amendment takes effect on 

April 12, 2022. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. 

Paula L. Hart, Director, Office of Indian 

Gaming, Assistant Secretary—Indian 

Affairs, Washington, DC 20240, 

paula.hart@bia.gov, (202) 219–4066. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under 

section 11 of the Indian Gaming 

Regulatory Act (IGRA), Public Law 100– 

497, 25 U.S.C. 2701 et seq., the 

Secretary of the Interior shall publish in 


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