Resolution 067-1999
RESOLUTION NO. 99- 067-1999
A RESOLUTION SUPPORTING THE PASSAGE OF H.R. 316,
THE "CRUISE -TO-NOWHERE ACT OF 1999," BY THE U.S.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, PROVIDING FOR
SEVERABILITY; PROVIDING FOR CONFLICTING
RESOLUTIONS; PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
WHEREAS, the Congress finds and declares that gambling cruises-to-nowhere are
voyages in which a vessel departs a State, sails 3 miles into international waters for the primary
purpose of offering gambling beyond jurisdiction of Federal and State laws prohibiting that
activity, and returns to the same State.
WHEREAS, legal authorities have ruled that existing State laws cannot stop the
operation of gambling cruises-to-nowhere, on the basis that the Congress preempted such State
laws by the enactment of an obscure amendment buried in a 1992 law entitled "An Act to
provide for the designation of the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary" (Public
Law 102-251).
WHEREAS, gambling cruises-to-nowhere offer high stakes, untaxed, unpoliced, and
unregulated casino gambling.
WHEREAS, accordingly, it is necessary to make absolutely clear that gambling cruises-
to-nowhere enjoy no special exception from the operation of existing or future State laws and
that relevant Federal law is not intended to preempt, supersede, or weaken the authority of States
to apply their own laws to gambling cruises-to-nowhere.
THEREFORE, be it resolved that MONROE COUNTY will support H.R. 316, the
"Cruise to Nowhere Act of 1999" to amend the Act popularly known as the Johnson Act to
restore the effectiveness of State laws over gambling cruises-to-nowhere.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Board of County Commissioner of Monroe County,
Florida, at a regular meeting of said Board held on the 10th day of February, 1999.
Mayor Wilhelmina Harvey
Mayor Pro Tem Shirley Freeman
Commissioner George Neugent
'", Commissioner Nora Williams
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