[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 116 (Friday, June 17, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Page 35294]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-11984]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Indian Affairs


Colorado River Tribe--Health and Safety Code, Article 2--Liquor

AGENCY: Bureau of Indian Affairs, Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: This notice publishes an amendment to the Colorado River 
Tribal Health and Safety Code, Article 2, Section 2-403(12) `` Liquor. 
The code regulates and controls the possession, sale and consumption of 
liquor within the Colorado River Tribe's Reservation. The land is 
located on trust land and this Code allows for the possession and sale 
of alcoholic beverages within the Colorado River Tribe's Reservation 
and will increase the ability of the tribal government to control the 
tribe's liquor distribution and possession, and at the same time will 
provide an important source of revenue for the continued operation and 
strengthening of the tribal government and the delivery of tribal 
services.

EFFECTIVE DATE: This Ordinance is effective on June 30, 2005.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Sharlot Johnson, Western Regional 
Office, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Division of Tribal Government, P.O. 
Box 10, Phoenix, AZ 85001, Telephone 602-379-6786; or Ralph Gonzales, 
Office of Tribal Services, 1951 Constitution Avenue, NW., Mail Stop 
320-SIB, Washington, DC 20240; Telephone (202) 513-7629.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant to the Act of August 15, 1953, Pub. 
L. 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 ordinances for the purpose of regulating liquor 
transactions in Indian country. The Colorado River Tribal Council 
adopted this amendment to Article 2 of the Health and Safety Code by 
Resolution No. 04/05 on November 15, 2004. The purpose of this Code is 
to govern the sale, possession and distribution of alcohol within the 
Colorado River Tribe's Reservation. This notice is published in 
accordance with the authority delegated by the Secretary of the 
Interior to the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary--Indian Affairs. I 
certify that this amendment to Article 2, Section 2-403(12) of the 
Health and Safety Code, of the Colorado River Tribe, was duly adopted 
by the Tribal Council on November 15, 2004.

    Dated: June 13, 2005.
Michael D. Olsen,
Acting Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary--Indian Affairs.

    The amendment to Article 2, Section 2-403(12) of the Colorado River 
Tribe's Health and Safety Code reads as follows:

    (12) ``For a Class 1, Class 2, Class 3, Class 4 licensee, or his 
employee, to sell or give any liquor to any person on the licensed 
premises between the hours of two o'clock a.m. and six o'clock a.m., 
Mondays through Saturdays, or two o'clock a.m. through ten o'clock 
a.m. on Sundays, on the Arizona side of the Reservation, or between 
the hours of two o'clock a.m. and six o'clock a.m. Pacific Standard 
or Daylight time, which ever is then generally in effect in 
California, on the California side or the Reservation, or permit the 
consumption of liquor on the licensed premises in those places 
during those hours and those days:'' and

[FR Doc. 05-11984 Filed 6-16-05; 8:45 am]
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