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[CITE: 25USC1747]

 
                            TITLE 25--INDIANS
 
               CHAPTER 19--INDIAN LAND CLAIMS SETTLEMENTS
 
   SUBCHAPTER III--FLORIDA INDIAN (MICCOSUKEE) LAND CLAIMS SETTLEMENT
 
        Part A--Florida Indian Land Claims Settlement Act of 1982
 
Sec. 1747. Transfer of lands to United States


(a) Acceptance by Secretary

    The Secretary is authorized and directed to accept the transfer to 
the United States, to be held in trust for the use and benefit of the 
Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida, of the lands authorized to be 
conveyed to the Miccosukee Tribe by section 285.061, Florida Statutes, 
and the lands described in Dedication Deed No. 23228 from the Trustees 
of the Internal Improvement Trust Fund subject to the provisions of 
section 285.061, Florida Statutes, and of this section.

(b) Jurisdiction of State of Florida

    (1) Notwithstanding the conveyance of any lands by the State of 
Florida to the United States in trust for the Miccosukee Tribe of 
Indians of Florida, the assumption of jurisdiction in favor of the State 
of Florida contained in section 285.16, Florida Statutes, pursuant to 
section 7 of the Act of August 15, 1953 (67 Stat. 588), as in effect 
prior to its repeal, shall continue in full force and effect on such 
lands unless the State shall retrocede such civil or criminal 
jurisdiction in whole or in part.
    (2)(A) The laws of Florida relating to alcoholic beverages (chapters 
561, 562, 563, 564, and 565, Florida Statutes), gambling (chapter 849, 
Florida Statutes), sale of cigarettes (chapter 210, Florida Statutes), 
and their successor laws, shall have the same force and effect within 
said transferred lands as they have elsewhere within the State and the 
State shall have jurisdiction over offenses committed by or against 
Indians under said laws to the same extent the State has jurisdiction 
over said offenses committed elsewhere within the State.
    (B) Nothing in subparagraph (A) shall permit the exercise of 
jurisdiction by the State of Florida as to any matter to which section 
1162(b) of title 18 or section 1360(b) of title 28 applies.

(c) Transfer of lands as subject to existing leases, etc.; additional 
        water rights

    (1) Any transfer of lands under this section shall be subject to all 
existing leases, easements, and rights-of-way, and all the rights, 
easements, and reservations in favor of the Central and Southern Florida 
Flood Control District (now the South Florida Water Management District) 
and shall not increase, diminish, modify, or otherwise affect the extent 
to which chapter 373, Florida Statutes, and its successor laws, have 
force and effect within such lands.
    (2) Any transfer of lands under this section shall not confer upon 
the Miccosukee Tribe, or upon the lands within the reservation, any 
additional water rights.

(Pub. L. 97-399, Sec. 8, Dec. 31, 1982, 96 Stat. 2015.)

                       References in Text

    Section 7 of Act August 15, 1953 (67 Stat. 588), as in effect prior 
to its repeal, referred to in subsec. (b)(1), is section 7 of act Aug. 
15, 1953, ch. 505, 67 Stat. 590, which was set out as a note under 
section 1360 of Title 28, Judiciary and Judicial Procedure, and was 
repealed by Pub. L. 90-284, title IV, Sec. 403(b), Apr. 11, 1968, 82 
Stat. 79.
