Section 1. The compacting states to this interstate compact recognize that each state is responsible for the proper supervision or return of juveniles, delinquents and status offenders who are on probation or parole and who have absconded, escaped or run away from supervision and control and, in so doing, have endangered their own safety and […]
Section 10. (a) The compacting states shall report to the interstate commission on all issues and activities necessary for the administration of the compact as well as issues and activities relative to compliance with the compact and its by-laws and rules. (b) The interstate commission shall attempt, upon the request of a compacting state, to […]
Section 11. (a) The interstate commission shall pay or provide for the payment of the reasonable expenses of its establishment, organization and ongoing activities. (b) The interstate commission shall levy on and collect an annual assessment from each compacting state to cover the cost of the internal operations and activities of the interstate commission and […]
Section 12. Each member state shall create a state council for interstate juvenile supervision. While each state may determine the membership of its own state council, its membership must include at least 1 representative from the legislative, judicial, and executive branches of government, victims groups, and the compact administrator, deputy compact administrator or designee. Each […]
Section 13. (a) Any state, the District of Columbia, or its designee, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa and the Northern Marianas Islands as defined in section 2 shall be eligible to become a compacting state. (b) The compact shall become effective and binding upon legislative enactment of […]
Section 14. (a) Once effective, the compact shall continue in force and remain binding upon each compacting state but a compacting state may withdraw from the compact by repealing the statute which enacted the compact into law in such state. (b) The effective date of withdrawal shall be the effective date of the repeal. (c) […]
Section 15. (a) If the interstate commission determines that any compacting state has at any time defaulted in the performance of any of its obligations or responsibilities under this compact, or the by-laws or duly adopted rules, the interstate commission may impose any or all of the following penalties: (1) remedial training and technical assistance […]
Section 16. The interstate commission may, by majority vote of the members, initiate legal action in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia or, at the discretion of the interstate commission, in the federal district wherein the interstate commission offices are located, to enforce compliance with the compact, its duly adopted rules […]
Section 17. (a) The compact shall dissolve effective on the date of the withdrawal or default of the compacting state, which reduces membership in the compact to 1 compacting state. (b) Upon the dissolution of this compact, the compact shall become null and void and shall be of no further force or effect, and the […]
Section 18. (a) The provisions of this compact shall be severable and, if any phrase, clause, sentence or provision is deemed unenforceable, the remaining provisions of the compact shall be enforceable. (b) The provisions of this compact shall be liberally construed to effectuate its purposes.
Section 19. (a) Nothing in this compact shall prevent the enforcement of any other law of a compacting state that is not inconsistent with this compact. (b) All compacting states’ laws other than state constitutions and other interstate compacts conflicting with this compact are superseded to the extent of the conflict.
Section 20. (a) All lawful actions of the interstate commission, including all rules and by-laws adopted by the interstate commission, shall be binding upon the compacting states. (b) All agreements between the interstate commission and the compacting states shall be binding in accordance with the terms thereof. (c) Upon the request of a party to […]
Section 3. (a) The compacting states hereby create the interstate commission for juveniles. The commission shall be a body corporate and joint agency of the compacting states. The commission shall have all the responsibilities, powers and duties set forth herein, and such additional powers as may be conferred upon it by subsequent action of the […]
Section 4. The commission shall have the following powers and duties: (1) to provide for dispute resolution among compacting states; (2) to promulgate rules to effect the purposes and obligations as enumerated in this compact, which shall have the force and effect of statutory law and shall be binding in the compacting states to the […]
Section 5. The interstate commission shall, by a majority of the members present and voting, within 12 months after the first interstate commission meeting, adopt by-laws to govern its conduct as may be necessary or appropriate to carry out the purposes of the compact including, but not limited to: (1) establishing the fiscal year of […]
Section 6. (a) The interstate commission shall, by a majority of the members, elect annually from among its members a chairperson and a vice chairperson, each of whom shall have such authority and duties as may be specified in the by-laws. The chairperson or, in the chairperson’s absence or disability, the vice-chairperson shall preside at […]
Section 7. (a) The commission’s executive director and employees shall be immune from suit and liability, either personally or in their official capacity, for any claim for damage to or loss of property or personal injury or other civil liability caused or arising out of or relating to any actual or alleged act, error or […]
Section 8. (a) The interstate commission shall promulgate and publish rules in order to effectively and efficiently achieve the purposes of the compact. (b) Rulemaking shall occur pursuant to the criteria set forth in this section and the by-laws and rules adopted pursuant thereto. Such rulemaking shall substantially conform to the principles of the ”Model […]
Section 9. (a) The interstate commission shall oversee the administration and operations of the interstate movement of juveniles subject to this compact in the compacting states and shall monitor such activities being administered in non-compacting states which may significantly affect compacting states. (b) The courts and executive agencies in each compacting state shall enforce this […]
