To: xp38
I can't say for sure. The new law specifically prohibits smoking is restaurants, bars, bingo halls, etc. The Indian Casino's like Turning Stone in Onieda County, are, in practice if not by law, exempt for pretty much all local regulation. The Oneida's have actually towed and refused to return State Police cars that were parked illegally in front of their building, for example. However, the caterers who serve alcohol at private parties at Turning Stone (Onieda Nation members and former employees who, I believe only serve at the casino), have applied for and may have received a state liquor license. That may have been only to facilitate wholesale purchasing thoug. Basically, the N.A.'s seem to do what they want.
51 posted on
03/27/2003 8:40:37 AM PST by
NYFriend
To: NYFriend; xp38
Absent an express statement by Congress on a particular issue, a state's power to assert its civil regulatory laws . . . on a federal reservation, turns on whether state law in that area is preempted by the operation of federal law. New Mexico v. Mescalero Apache Tribe, 462 U.S. 324, 103 S.Ct. 2378, 2386 (1983).I would assume that federal law is silent on smoking bans.
54 posted on
03/27/2003 9:07:41 AM PST by
VRWC_minion
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