Tribal & Gaming Commission, Boards, Officials, Employees - Duties & Responsibilities
Efficiency in implementing on a day-to-day basis responsible oversight of tribal & gaming committee(s) duties & responsibilities.
View Dates For This Seminar
COURSE DESCRIPTION
"* Ensuring that the financial integrity of your particular gaming operations require the protection and promotion of the ""fair and honest gaming"" doctrine in all areas of the facility. In addition, responsibilities of gaming commissions and officials, employees must include the thorough understanding of the Minimum Internal Control Standards based upon NIGC Regulations.
* Recently federal legislation has been introduced to amend the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act, by Senator Nighthorse Campbell from Colorado. It is imperative that all gaming commissions and tribeal officials undersatnd the relevant responsibilities this amendment proposed to place upon gaming officials, commissioners and facility managers.
* This newly developed seminar from Montana & Associates will assist in creating solutions and problems that gaming & tribal officials, commissioners, board members and employees face on a daily basis. Finally this seminar will focus and explain the vital role and responsibilities that face those individuals in their day-to-day independent roles within the gaming and tribal operations. Montana & Associates will assist in real problem solving and realistic means by which licensing and new regulations affect tribal gaming operations today and the implementation of tribal ordinances."
COURSE CONTENT
| I. | Introduction to Responsibilities of Gaming Commissions - Officials & Employees |
| A. | History of IGRA - NIGC; |
| B. | Responsibilities & Duties; |
| C. | Overview of Regulations; |
| D. | Instruction on regulation vs. management. |
| II. | Authority of Gaming Commission vs. National Indian Gaming Commission. |
| A. | Tribal Gaming Ordinance; |
| B. | Gaming Rules & Regulations; |
| C. | Required Rules & Regulations; |
| D. | Minimum Internal Controls Standards (MICS); |
| E. | Federal & State Authority under IGRA; |
| F. | Variances and recent amendments. |
| III. | Proposed Amendments to IGRA-2004. |
| B. | Backgrounding changes; |
| C. | Class II & Class III changes. |
| IV. | Gaming Commission as Regulatory Agency of Tribe. |
| A. | Independent authority; |
| B. | Gaming Ordinance/Policy; |
| C. | Interface relationship with Management; |
| D. | Relationship with Community & Commission Ethics. |
| V. | Backgrounding & Licensing Requirements. |
| A. | Congressional findings under IGRA; |
| B. | Key employees, management officials, gaming commission backgrounding; |
| C. | Licensing of key employees & management officials; |
| D. | Show Cause Hearings for revocation suspension and reprimand pf licensees; |
| E. | Vendor licensing & TERO; |
| G. | Interface with Business Codes. |
| VI. | Revocation and Suspension of Licensing. |
| A. | Terms of Licenses & Fees; |
| B. | IGRA Requirements for backgrounding & licensing - 25 U.S.C.Section 2701 et seq.; |
| C. | Due Process & Equal Protection requirements; |
| D. | Indian Civial Rights Act of 1968; |
| VII. | Supervisory Duties of Gaming Regulatory Body. |
| A. | Compliance Officers, Commission Employees; |
| B. | Oversight of Surveillance Departments; |
| D. | Financial Integrity & MICS; |
| E. | Oversight of gaming facility licensing; |
| VIII. | Problem Areas of Regulation. |
| C. | Compact negotiations & illegal payments to state governments?; |
| D. | Gaps in tribal gaming regulatory laws; |
View Dates For This Seminar
|
