(h) To coordinate the goals, activities, policies, and procedures of all Spokane enterprises
established under Spokane Tribe Enterprises pursuant to the economic development,
employment, and other policies of the Tribal Council.
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43-3 Establishment of Spokane Tribe Enterprises
43-3.01 Spokane Tribe Enterprises – Establishment.
(a) The Spokane Tribal Council establishes the Spokane Tribe Enterprises that shall be an
instrumentality of the Spokane Tribe.
(b) The Spokane Tribal Council organizes and grants to the Spokane Tribe Enterprises its powers,
privileges, and immunities under the laws of the Spokane Tribe of Indians, pursuant to the
Tribe’s inherent sovereign authority and the Constitution of the Spokane Tribe-Spokane
Reservation.
(c) Spokane Tribe Enterprises shall have the duty and responsibility for all commercial activities as
assigned by the Spokane Tribal Council, except as the Tribal Council commits specific activities
to other entities.
(d) Nothing in this Code shall be implied to waive or to permit the Spokane Tribe Enterprises to
waive the Tribe's sovereign immunity from suit, except as expressly delegated elsewhere in the
Code.
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43-5 Definitions
43-5.01 Definitions. For purposes of this Enterprise Code, this Section defines certain terms. The word
“shall” is always mandatory ad not merely advisory.
(a) “Board” or “Board of Directors” means to the Board of Directors of Spokane Tribe Enterprises.
(b) “Commercial activity”" means activity involving the purchase and sale of goods or services in the
regular course of a business which purpose primarily is to produce profit.
(c) “Director” means an appointed member of the Spokane Tribe Enterprises Board of Directors.
(d) “Enterprise” means Spokane Tribe Enterprises or the Enterprise’s subordinate enterprises.
(e) “Immediate family” means a spouse, parent, sibling, child, grandchild, grandparent, aunt, uncle,
first cousin, any person who lives in the same home, or who no longer lives in the same home,
but who has lived in the same home for greater than 1-year.
(f) “Management position” means a position having significant actual or potential legal influence
over the management of an organization, including a position as a Director, general partner,
principal, or officer.
(g) “Net proceeds” means all earnings in excess of the cost of sales, operating expenses, other
expenses, capital expenditures that are paid in full, and the principal portion of payments on
loans for capital expenditures.
(h) “Substantial interest” means a financial interest of such significance that it would reasonably be
expected to exert an influence on the judgment of the person having such interest, including
ownership of in excess of the lesser of 10% or $1,000 of the assets or capital stock of such
organization.
(i) “Tribal Council” means the Spokane Tribal Council, the elected governing body of the Spokane
Tribe.
(j) “Tribe” means the Spokane Indian Tribe.
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Section 43-7 Location and Place of Business
43-7.01 Location and Place of Business.
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