There is hereby created a commission consisting of three members, to act jointly with commissioners appointed for like purposes by the commonwealths of Pennsylvania and Virginia, the state of Maryland, and the District of Columbia, and an additional three members to be appointed by the president of the United States, and which, together with the […]
The Governor, by and with the consent of the Senate, shall appoint an alternate member for the two members of the commission who are not ex officio, and each alternate shall have power to act in the absence of the person for whom he is alternate. The Governor shall appoint the first alternates hereunder on […]
The commissioners shall be reimbursed, out of moneys appropriated for such purposes, all sums which they necessarily shall expend in the discharge of their duties as members of such commission. There shall be appropriated to the commission out of any moneys in the State Treasury unexpended and available therefor, and not otherwise appropriated, such sums […]
This article shall become effective upon the adoption of substantially similar amendments to the interstate compact by each of the signatory states to the compact, and upon the approval of the amendments to the compact by the Congress of the United States.
Neither the Governor of the State of West Virginia nor any member of the commission aforesaid, representing the State of West Virginia, shall consent to the construction of any dam, whether in the State of West Virginia, or without this state, which shall flood lands in this state, without the express consent of the Legislature.
