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(3)__Five percent must be allocated in each year to
the Maine State Grant Program, Title 20-A, chapter
419-A; and

 
(4)__Five percent must be allocated to and
distributed by the Finance Authority of Maine each
year to private nonprofit organizations that have the
principal purpose of providing scholarships to and
otherwise enhancing the postsecondary educational
opportunities of students in this State enrolled in
eligible programs in institutions of higher education
in this State.__Allocations must be administered and
made by the Finance Authority of Maine annually on or
before March 1st of each year. Any unexpended funds
allocated for this purpose do not lapse and must be
carried forward for continued use of the program in
future years.

 
The Department of Administrative and Financial Services,
Bureau of Revenue Services shall issue an annual report to the
Legislature, on or before February 1st, which must include a
detailed statement of the aggregate gross revenues paid to the
State pursuant to subsection 3 and the allocations made by the
State pursuant subsection 4.

 
§6313.__Johnson Act exemption

 
Pursuant to the provisions of 15 United States Code, Section
1172 governing the transportation of gambling devices in
interstate and foreign commerce, the State exempts from that
statute the transportation of any gambling device used or
intended for use at, and transported to or from, a gaming
facility operated under this subchapter.

 
§6314.__Interpretation

 
This subchapter must be liberally construed in favor of
gaming by and on behalf of the Tribes.__Without limitation of
the foregoing, the grant under this subchapter of authority to
the Tribes and the tribal gaming operator to conduct gaming
operations at the site and the other provisions of this
subchapter may not be interpreted to decrease or derogate from
the authority of the Tribes under existing law to conduct any
activity permitted to be conducted by them, whether on their
respective reservations or elsewhere.

 
Sec. 4. Effective date. This Act does not take effect with respect
to the Passamaquoddy Tribe unless, within 60 days after the
adjournment of the Legislature if the Legislature enacts this
Act, or within 90 days of the Governor's proclamation of the
result of the vote if this Act is approved by the voters, the


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