Opinion ID: 1198139
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Heading Rank: 5

Heading: There is a standard compact

Text: Section 5-601.01 defines the standard form of gaming compact as the compact containing provisions common to the compacts entered into by this state with Indian tribes in this state on June 24, 1993. We have read each of the five compacts made before June 24, 1993. None contains the location restriction the Governor wishes to impose on the Tribe, although all contain a clause regarding location. All (as well as the entire text of the five compacts) are essentially identical, reading as follows: Authorized Gaming Facility Locations. The [Tribe] is authorized to operate [X] Gaming Facility locations based on current tribal enrollment figures. All Gaming Facility locations shall be located not less than one and one-half miles apart and shall be located on the Indian Lands of the [Tribe]. The [Tribe] shall notify the State Gaming Agency of the physical location of any Gaming Facility a minimum of thirty (30) days prior to commencing gaming authorized pursuant to this Compact at such location. Gaming on lands acquired after the enactment of the Act on October 17, 1988 shall be authorized only in accordance with 25 U.S.C. § 2719. The Tribe's proposed compact contained the quoted clause, as well as text substantially identical to that found in the first five compacts. Thus, we conclude there is a standard form of compact, as those words are used in § 5-601.01(B)(1). The location clause in the compact the Tribe tendered to the Governor is in the standard form referred to in Proposition 201; the one the Governor signed and sent to the Tribe is not because it contains the clause giving the state's gaming agency the right of approval over the casino site. That right is not given the gaming agency in the five standard compacts.