33 U.S.C. § 11 : US Code - Section 11: Authority for compact between Middle Northwest States as to jurisdiction of offenses committed on boundary waters
Search 33 U.S.C. § 11 : US Code - Section 11: Authority for compact between Middle Northwest States as to jurisdiction of offenses committed on boundary waters
The consent of the Congress is given to the States of North
Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, and Nebraska, or
any two or more of them, by such agreement or compact as they may
deem desirable or necessary, or as may be evidenced by legislative
acts enacted by any two or more of said States, not in conflict
with the Constitution of the United States or any law thereof, to
determine and settle the jurisdiction to be exercised by said
States, respectively, over offenses arising out of the violation of
the laws of any of said States upon any of the waters forming the
boundary lines between any two or more of said States, or waters
through which such boundary line extends, and that the consent of
the Congress be, and the same is, given to the concurrent
jurisdiction agreed to by the States of Minnesota and South Dakota,
as evidenced by the act of the Legislature of the State of
Minnesota approved April 20, 1917, and the act of the Legislature
of the State of South Dakota approved February 13, 1917.
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