Notice2025-16222
Osage Nation Liquor Control Ordinance
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Published
August 25, 2025
Effective
September 24, 2025
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentIndian Affairs Bureau
Abstract
This notice publishes an amendment to the Osage Nation Liquor Control Ordinance, which comprehensively amends and supersedes the existing Osage Nation Liquor Control Ordinance enacted by the Osage Tribal Council on August 4, 2004.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 162 (Monday, August 25, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 41410-41411]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-16222]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Indian Affairs
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Osage Nation Liquor Control Ordinance
AGENCY: Bureau of Indian Affairs, Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: This notice publishes an amendment to the Osage Nation Liquor
Control Ordinance, which comprehensively amends and supersedes the
existing Osage Nation Liquor Control Ordinance enacted by the Osage
Tribal Council on August 4, 2004.
DATES: This amendment shall become effective September 24, 2025.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Kasey McKenzie, Tribal Government
Services Officer, Eastern Oklahoma Regional Office, Bureau of Indian
Affairs, 3100 West Peak Boulevard, Muskogee, OK 74402, Telephone: (918)
731-8973.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant to the Act of August 15, 1953,
Public Law 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 control ordinances for the purpose of regulating
liquor transactions in Indian country. On November 19, 2024, the Osage
Nation Congress, by Osage Nation Congress Act 25-01, duly adopted an
amendment to title 20, section 1-105. This Federal Register Notice
comprehensively amends and supersedes the existing title 20, section 1-
105, of the Osage Nation Code, which was enacted by the Osage Tribal
Council by Resolution No. 31-846 on August 4, 2004, and published in
the Federal Register on January 19, 2005 (70 FR 3054).
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This notice is published in accordance with the authority delegated
by the Secretary of the Interior to the Assistant Secretary--Indian
Affairs. I certify that the Osage Nation Congress duly adopted this
amendment to title 20 (Liquor Control Ordinance), section 1-105, on
November 19, 2024.
Scott J. Davis,
Senior Advisor to the Secretary of the Interior, Exercising the
delegated authority of the Assistant Secretary--Indian Affairs.
The Osage Nation Liquor Control Ordinance, title 20, section 1-105,
shall read as follows:
Sec. 1-105. Taxes.
A. Tax Levied. There is hereby levied a liquor tax of seven
percent (7%) on the sale of each and every alcoholic beverage sold
within the Osage Nation Reservation and Osage Indian country. The
incidence of said tax shall be on the consumer. The liquor tax shall
be collected by the gaming facility or licensee and paid over to the
Osage Nation Tax Commission as provided herein. No municipality,
city, town or county, nor the state shall have the power to impose
an excise or any other tax upon liquor as defined in this ordinance,
or to govern or license the sale or distribution thereof in any
manner within the Osage Reservation and Osage Indian country, unless
in conformance with federal, Oklahoma, and Osage Nation law.
B. Taxes Due. All taxes for the sale of liquor and alcoholic
beverages on the Osage Reservation and Osage Indian country are due
on the 15th day of the month following the end of the calendar
quarter for which the taxes are due.
C. Delinquent Taxes. Past due taxes shall accrue interest at two
percent (2%) per month.
D. Reports. Along with payment of the taxes imposed herein, the
taxpayer shall submit a quarterly accounting of all income from the
sale or distribution of liquor, as well as for the taxes collected,
to the Osage Nation Tax Commission.
E. Compliance with Nation Tax Laws. Except as otherwise set
forth in this ordinance, the collection and enforcement of liquor
taxes shall be conducted by the Osage Nation Tax Commission in
accordance with Osage law.
[FR Doc. 2025-16222 Filed 8-22-25; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4337-15-P
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