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WARM SPRINGS TRIBAL CODE
CHAPTER 7261
TOBACCO ORDINANCE 59

WHEREAS the Tribal Council of the Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon is charged with the duty of safeguarding and promoting the peace, safety, morals, health, and general welfare of the members of the Confederated Tribes, by regulating the conduct of trade and the use and disposition of property on the Reservation; and

WHEREAS the Tribal Council finds it essential to the peace, safety, morals, and general welfare of the Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon to enact an ordinance regulating the sale and distribution of cigarettes and other tobacco products on the Reservation;

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NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ENACTED by the Tribal Council of the Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon, pursuant to Article Y, subsection (f) & (1) of the Tribal Constitution that the following ordinance be and hereby is adopted:

Section 1. Title. This ordinance shall be known as the Tobacco Ordinance.

Section 2. Definitions. As used in this ordinance the following words and phrases shall each have the designated meaning unless a different meaning is expressly provided or the context clearly requires a different meaning:

  1. ” Cigarette” means any roll for smoking, made wholly or in part of tobacco, irrespective to size or shape and irrespective of whether the tobacco is flavored, adulterated, or mixed with any other ingredient, where such roll has a wrapper or cover made of paper or any other material except where such wrapper is wholly or in the greater part made of natural leaf tobacco.
  2. ” Council” shall mean the Tribal Council of the Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon.
  3. ” Operator” shall mean any person licensed by the Tribe to operate a tobacco outlet.
  4. ” Person” includes any individual, firm, co-partnership, joint venture, association, social club, fraternal organization, corporation, estate, trust, receiver, trustee, syndicate, or any other group or combination acting as a unit.
  5. ” Tobacco outlet” shall mean any outlet for the sale of tobacco products located on the Warm Springs Reservation and shall include a cigarette vending machine.
  6. ” Tobacco products” shall include cigarettes, cigars, smoking tobacco, snuff, chewing tobacco, and all other kinds and forms of tobacco prepared in such manner as to be suitable for chewing or smoking.
  7. ” Tribes” shall mean the Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon.

Section 3. Establishment of Tobacco Outlets. The Tribes may establish one or more tobacco outlets within the Warm Springs Reservation as the Council, in its sole discretion, deems necessary to provide adequate service to consumers of tobacco products.

Section 4. Nature of Outlet. Each tobacco outlet established hereunder shall be a Tribal tobacco outlet and shall be operated by an Operator pursuant to a license granted by the Council hereunder and shall also be operated pursuant to a federal Indian trader’s license as required in Section 8 hereof. Such operator shall be an independent contractor.

Section 5. Application for Tobacco Outlet License. Any person may apply for a tobacco outlet license upon an application form provided by the Council. The application shall state the name and address of the applicant, the location of the proposed tobacco outlet, the period of time, not in excess of five years, for which the license is requested, a description of any other retail or commercial business conducted or to be conducted by the applicant at the location of the proposed tobacco outlet, such other information as the Council may require, and shall be signed by the applicant under oath.

Section 6. Conditions for Application and Approval of Tobacco Outlet License.

  1. No application for a tobacco outlet license shall be granted unless: (a) The applicant pays an application fee established by the Council which shall not exceed $25.00. Tribal Members shall not be required to pay a license fee. (b) The applicant, if a natural person, shall be at least 21 years of age. (c) The location proposed for such tobacco outlet complies with all applicable Tribal building codes and zoning ordinances. (d) The applicant is engaged in or proposed to engage in retail or commercial business at such location other than the sale of tobacco products, unless the proposed tobacco outlet is a cigarette vending machine. (e) The Council determines that there is adequate demand for a tobacco outlet at the location proposed; (f) The Council determines that the applicant is of good moral character.
  2. The conditions described in this section are not exclusive and the Council may impose any other conditions which it deems necessary. Findings and decisions by the Council with respect to the denial of any application or the granting of any application and the conditions therefor shall be final and conclusive on all persons.

Section 7. The Tobacco Outlet License. Upon approval of an application, the Council shall issue the applicant a tobacco outlet license which shall be effective for a period stated therein, not in excess of five years, and shall entitle the Operator to establish and maintain one tobacco outlet on the Warm Springs Reservation at the location described in the license. The license shall be nontransferable.

Section 8. Trader’s License. If under applicable federal law the applicant is required to obtain a federal Indian trader’s license, the applicant shall apply for such trader’s license within 30 days after receipt of a tobacco outlet license. Failure of the Operator to apply for, obtain, or maintain a federal Indian trader’s license shall be grounds for immediate revocation of the tobacco outlet license.

Section 9. Expiration; License Renewal. Each license granted hereunder shall expire automatically without notice on the expiration date stated in the license. An Operator may apply for renewal of a license by filing a renewal application with the Council not less than 10 days prior to the license expiration date. Renewal applications shall be subject to all conditions and requirements applicable to an initial application.

Section 10. Revenue Stamp Required. No cigarette shall be sold which does not bear a revenue stamp of the State of Oregon or such revenue stamp as may hereafter be established by Tribes.

Section 11. Restricted Sales to Minors. No person shall distribute any tobacco products on the Warm Springs Reservation to any person under the age of eighteen (18) years.

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Section 12. Tribal Immunity – Liability – Credit. An Operator shall not attempt or be authorized to waive the sovereign immunity of the Tribes from suit, nor shall such Operator attempt or be authorized to create any liability on behalf of the Tribes or to utilize tribal credit as a source of payment of any taxes, penalties, or other obligations of the Operator arising under this ordinance.

Section 13. Operating Without a License. No person shall engage in the business of selling or distributing tobacco products on the Warm Springs Reservation without having in effect a valid tobacco outlet license issued pursuant to this ordinance.

Section 14. Revocation of Tobacco Outlet License. Failure of an Operator to abide by any requirement of this ordinance and any additional requirements imposed by the Council will constitute grounds for revocation of the Operator’s tobacco outlet license as well as enforcement of the remedies provided in Section 15 hereof.

Section 15. Violation – Penalties. Upon application by the Chairman of the Council, the Tribal Judge shall issue an order directing the Tribal Law Enforcement Office to seize all tobacco products from wherever purchased and by whomever owned from any tobacco outlet being operated in violation of this ordinance. Within three days of such seizure, after adequate notice to the person operating such outlet, a hearing shall be held in Tribal Court at which time such person shall be given an opportunity to present evidence in defense of his activities. If the Tribal Judge shall determine by a preponderance of the evidence that such tobacco outlet was being operated in violation of this ordinance, the Tribal Judge may impose a penalty of not less than $50.00 or more than $250.00 for each such violation, and in addition may declare a forfeiture to the Tribe of all or any part of the tobacco products seized as described above. Any non-member of the Tribes found to be in violation of this ordinance may be excluded from the Reservation under existing Tribal ordinances governing exclusion of undesirable persons.

Section 16. Non-Application to Tribe. The provisions of this ordinance requiring a tobacco outlet license and a federal Indian Trader’s License shall not apply to any sales of tobacco products by Confederated Tribes or one of its businesses or enterprises.

Section 17. Severability. If any provision of this ordinance or its application to any person or circumstances is held invalid, the remainder of this ordinance, or the application of the provision to other persons or circumstances, shall not be affected.

CERTIFICATION 2

The undersigned, as Secretary-Treasurer of the Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon, hereby certifies that the Tribal Council is composed of 11 members, of whom 7 constituting a quorum were present at a meeting thereof, duly and regularly called, noticed, convened and held this 31st day of July, 1979; and that the foregoing ordinance was passed by the affirmative vote of 6 members, the Chairman not voting; and that the foregoing ordinance has not been rescinded in any way.

1 WSTC Chapter 726 was originally created as WSTC Chapter 720. This chapter was renumbered by Tribal Council Resolution No. 11,744, adopted April 1, 2013.
2 From original Ordinance 59, adopted July 31, 1979.

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In the first decade of the 2000s, the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs (a group of Indian tribes in the U.S. state of Oregon) sought to build a casino in the Columbia River Gorge. They ended their pursuit of the project in 2013.[1] They considered various sites, as early as 1999; the most extensive plan called for a 60-acre (24 ha) facility with 250 hotel rooms in Cascade Locks, Oregon. The proposed site is within the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area, and adjacent to a federally designated wilderness area, but within the city limits of Cascade Locks. (The Columbia River National Scenic Area specifically exempts economic development projects within city limits and supports such growth for cities on both sides of the Columbia River).

The plan, which was opposed by Oregon GovernorJohn Kitzhaber, but supported by the City of Cascade Locks, and the government of Hood River County,[2] must be approved by the United States Department of the Interior, and would be the first (or seventh[3]) off-reservation casino in the state.[2]

Political context[edit]

The Siletz tribe advocated for an off-reservation casino in Troutdale as early as 1992, drawing opposition from then-governor Barbara Roberts.[4]

As early as 1998, the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs owned property in Hood River, and were entertaining controversial plans to open a casino there or in Cascade Locks. The Warm Springs tribes have operated the Kah-Nee-Ta resort since the 1960s; that resort, located 11 miles from Highway 26, is not very accessible to Portland metropolitan area, leading the tribes to seek a more lucrative location.

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Then-governor John Kitzhaber opposed the plans, on two principles: that each tribe should have only one casino, and that tribal casinos should be on tribal trust land established before the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act of 1988.[5] Federal law gave Kitzhaber the power to deny the tribe the Cascade Locks location, because it had not been held in trust prior to the 1988 law. He had no such power over the Hood River site or other land the tribes had held for a longer period of time.[6]

Kitzhaber ultimately overruled the Cascade Locks location,[6] but the issue overshadowed the 2002 gubernatorial election of Ted Kulongoski. The tribes made record political contributions during that election. Kulongoski, who took no position on the issue during the election, received $40,000 for his campaign from Indian tribes.[7]

In 2001, the Confederated Tribes purchased an additional 120 acres (0.49 km2) of land east of the city of Hood River, adjoining 40 acres (160,000 m2) it already owned.[8] The Confederated Tribes then pursued two separate plans for casinos in the gorge until 2004: one in Cascade Locks, the other on the Hood River property.[9] The Hood River plan, which would have called for an eight-story casino, was opposed by Hood River residents.[10]Hood River County Commissioner Carol York was also a strong advocate of the Cascade Locks location, rather than the Hood River location.[10]

The project has the support of Oregon Congressman Greg Walden (R), who represents this area in Congress.[citation needed] Also publicly supporting the project is Oregon Senator Ted Ferrioli (R) and former Oregon Governors Vic Atiyeh (R) and Ted Kulongoski (D).[citation needed]

Kulongoski and the Warm Springs tribe entered an agreement in 2005 permitting the plans to proceed.[11]

Opposition to a casino in Cascade Locks has been led by the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon, and has included other organizations: the Oregon Restaurant Association, Friends of Columbia Gorge, NoGorgeCasino, a small but vocal group of residents and the Oregon Family Council. Congressman David Wu has also opposed the casino.[12] The Grand Ronde group was the biggest campaign spender in the 2006 gubernatorial primary election, opposing Kulongoski and Kevin Mannix.[13] Grand Ronde, which operates Spirit Mountain Casino, spent over $800,000 in that cycle.[14] In the 2010 gubernatorial race, all four major candidates (including Kitzhaber, who was ultimately reelected that year) announced their opposition to the plan.[11]

The United States Secretary of the Interior would have to approve a casino for it to move forward. Secretary Dirk Kempthorne of the George W. Bush administration generally opposed off-reservation casinos, but did not make a decision; his successor was expected to consider the proposed casino, along with an off-reservation casino in La Center, Washington being proposed by the Cowlitz Tribe.[15] In January 2011 the Interior Department approved a compact between the tribes and the state.[16] The remaining steps as of 2011 would include the demonstration of compliance with the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act and approval from the governor.[16] In 2011, the tribes announced plans to move the Kah-Nee-Ta resort closer to Route 26, as they continued their long-term pursuit of a casino in Cascade Locks.[17]

The Warm Springs tribes ended their pursuit of a casino in the gorge in summer 2013.[1]

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References[edit]

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  1. ^ abUnsigned editorial (August 13, 2013). 'Editorial: Casino: fait accompli'. Hood River News.
  2. ^ abPartlow, Joshua (March 11, 2008). 'Gamble in the Gorge?'. The Oregonian.
  3. ^'Frequently Asked Questions About the Casino'(PDF). City of Cascade Locks. p. 2 (Q 5). Retrieved 2012-02-23.[permanent dead link]
  4. ^Ruble, Web (May 6, 1992). 'Chamber urges Troutdale study casino proposal'. The Oregonian.
  5. ^'Gambling in the Gorge: Sound principles are about to collide in the Columbia Gorge as the Warm Springs tribes consider locations for a new casino'. The Oregonian. November 22, 1998.
  6. ^ abThompson, Courtenay; Jeanie Senior (November 5, 1999). 'Kitzhaber denies Cascade Locks casino'. The Oregonian.
  7. ^Jim Lynch (January 15, 2003). 'Native American Tribes Invest Record Cash in Oregon Politics'. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News. The Oregonian. Archived from the original on October 20, 2012.
  8. ^Herrington, Gregg (May 15, 2001). 'Warm Springs indians purchase gorge land for casino'. The Columbian. Archived from the original on October 20, 2012.
  9. ^Durbin, Kathie (July 11, 2002). 'Casino project east of Hood River apparently shelved by Indian tribe'. The Columbian. Archived from the original on October 20, 2012.
  10. ^ abWendy Owen (April 24, 2004). 'Warm Springs shows cards on gorge casino option'. The Oregonian.
  11. ^ abMapes, Jeff (May 4, 2010). 'Oregon candidates for governor join in opposing Columbia Gorge casino'. The Oregonian.
  12. ^Jaquiss, Nigel (2005-09-21). 'Who's Who In The Battle Of The Gorge Casino'. Willamette Week.
  13. ^'Of casino ads and candidates'. The Oregonian. April 3, 2006.
  14. ^Jaquiss, Nigel (May 17, 2006). 'Betting On The Governor's Race'. Willamette Week. Archived from the original on August 6, 2007.
  15. ^Durbin, Kathie (June 29, 2008). 'Bush leaving loose ends in Northwest'. The Columbian. Archived from the original on July 3, 2008. Retrieved June 30, 2008.
  16. ^ abAndy Giegerich (January 7, 2011). 'Gorge casino gets another federal approval'. Portland Business Journal.
  17. ^Merriman, Ed (February 11, 2011). 'Kah-Nee-Ta to Highway 26? - Move would be temporary while tribes seek Gorge location'. The Bend Bulletin.

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External links[edit]

  • Kulongoski, Theodore; Peter Bragdon (October 5, 1996). 'When Gambling Calls the Shots'. The New York Times.
  • Cascade Locks Casino and Resort - Draft Environmental Impact Statement. US Environmental Protection Agency.
  • Final Environmental Impact Statement. Cascade Locks Resort and Casino EIS Project.

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