A. The Gaming Commission is responsible for granting and issuing gaming licenses to all primary management officials, key employees and any other entities required to hold a gaming license pursuant to this chapter and the tribal-state compact.

B. The Gaming Commission may license a primary management official or key employee applicant after submitting a notice of results of the applicant’s background investigation to the NIGC as required under this chapter.

C. The Gaming Commission shall notify the NIGC of the issuance of a license to a primary management official or key employee within thirty (30) calendar days of issuance.

D. The Tribe shall not employ an individual in a primary management official or key employee position who does not have a license after ninety (90) calendar days of beginning work at the gaming operation.

E. The Gaming Commission must reconsider a license application for a primary management official or key employee if it receives a statement of itemized objections to issuing such a license from the NIGC, and those objections are received within thirty (30) days of the NIGC receiving a notice of results of the applicant’s background investigation. The Gaming Commission shall take the NIGC’s objections into account when reconsidering a license application.

F. The Gaming Commission will make the final decision whether to issue a license to an applicant for a primary management official or key employee position.

G. If the Gaming Commission has issued a license to a primary management official or key employee before receiving the NIGC’s statement of objections, notice and hearing shall be provided to the licensee pursuant to the procedures in this chapter and as required by Section 3-614.

H. The Gaming Commission is responsible for issuing licenses and for delivering them, by certified mail, return receipt requested, or in person, to applicants once they are issued.

I. All primary management officials and key employees must have a gaming license issued by the Gaming Commission. (Res. 2023-04 (Exh. A); Res. 2019-28)