Tribal Law - Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe, Wisconsin; National Indian Law Library, Native American Rights Fund

Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin - Tribal Law

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Lac Courte Oreilles Tribal Code of Law.

CMP.1.1.070 Interpretation

The provisions of this ordinance:

(a) Shall be interpreted and applied as minimum requirements applicable to gaming activities subject to this ordinance;

(b) Shall be liberally construed in favor of the Tribe;

(d) Shall be construed consistent with the provisions of the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act, 25 U.S.C. § 2701, et seq., and the 1991 Tribal-State Gaming Compact as amended, (hereinafter referred to as "the Compact"), governing Class III games, between the Tribe and the State of Wisconsin;

(e) Words of the masculine gender or neuter include masculine and feminine genders and are the neuter.

(f) Words in the present tense include the future and past tenses.

(g) Words in the singular number include the plural, and words in the plural number include the singular.