PRIOR PRINTER'S NO. 133 PRINTER'S NO. 2505
No. 122 Session of 1989
INTRODUCED BY LESCOVITZ, JAROLIN, RYBAK, LASHINGER, BORTNER,
CAWLEY, TRELLO, DALEY, HERMAN, COY, COLAIZZO, COLAFELLA,
PRESTON, VEON, REBER, BELARDI AND BISHOP, JANUARY 25, 1989
AS AMENDED ON THIRD CONSIDERATION, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
OCTOBER 3, 1989
AN ACT
1 Authorizing the Governor to appoint commissioners SECRETARY OF <--
2 TRANSPORTATION to negotiate an interstate compact with states
3 adjoining this Commonwealth concerning maintenance and repair
4 of public highways, transportation facilities and rights-of-
5 way on or along state lines.
6 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
7 hereby enacts as follows:
8 Section 1. Authority of Governor. <--
9 The Governor is hereby authorized to designate three officers <--
10 of the Commonwealth as commissioners with power THE SECRETARY OF <--
11 TRANSPORTATION IS AUTHORIZED to negotiate a compact with the
12 duly authorized agents of any one or more of the States of
13 Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Ohio and West Virginia
14 in accordance with the Constitution of the United States,
15 concerning maintenance and repair of public highways,
16 transportation facilities and rights-of-way situated on or along
17 the line between the Commonwealth and any of the states
18 enumerated above, whereby the Commonwealth and any of these
1 other states mutually agree to maintain and repair those
2 portions of such public highways, transportation facilities and
3 rights-of-way as are situated within their respective
4 jurisdictions.
5 Section 2. Submission to General Assembly for ratification.
6 The compact negotiated by said commissioners THE SECRETARY OF <--
7 TRANSPORTATION shall be submitted by the Governor to the General
8 Assembly and shall become immediately operative as to the
9 Commonwealth and such other states as ratify it whenever it has
10 been ratified by a duly enacted law of this Commonwealth, and by
11 any other states as their laws may prescribe, and the Congress
12 of the United States has, if required, consented thereto.
13 Section 3. Effective date.
14 This act shall take effect immediately.
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