2012 Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes
Title 30 - FISH
Chapter 71 - Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Compact
Section 7106 - Amendment to compact

     § 7106.  Amendment to compact.
        (a)  Execution and form of amendment.--The Governor is
     authorized and directed to enter into an amendment of the
     Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Compact with any one or more of
     the States of Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut,
     Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland,
     Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida,
     and such other states as may become party to that compact, for
     the purpose of permitting the states that ratify this amendment
     to establish joint regulation of specific fisheries common to
     those states through the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries
     Commission and their representatives on that body, such
     amendment to be in substantially the following form:

                          Amendment No. 1 of the
                 Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Compact

            The states consenting to this amendment agree that any
        two or more of them may designate the Atlantic States Marine
        Fisheries Commission as a joint regulatory agency with such
        powers as they may jointly confer from time to time for the
        regulation of the fishing operations of the citizens and
        vessels of such designating states with respect to specific
        fisheries in which such states have a common interest. The
        representatives of such states on the Atlantic States Marine
        Fisheries Commission shall constitute a separate section of
        the commission for the exercise of the additional powers so
        granted: Provided, That the states so acting shall
        appropriate additional funds for this purpose. The creation
        of such section as a joint regulatory agency shall not
        deprive the states participating therein of any of their
        privileges or powers or responsibilities in the Atlantic
        States Marine Fisheries Commission under the general compact.
        (b)  Effectiveness of amendment.--This amendment shall take
     effect as to this Commonwealth with respect to such other of the
     aforesaid states as take similar action.
        (c)  Withdrawal from amendment.--Notice of intention to
     withdraw from this amendment shall be executed and transmitted
     by the Governor and shall be in accordance with Article XII of
     the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Compact and shall be
     effective as to this Commonwealth with those states which
     similarly ratify this amendment.