Pennsylvania Act 1963-483 — INTERSTATE AGREEMENTS RECORDS ACT

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INTERSTATE AGREEMENTS RECORDS ACT
                 Act of Aug. 24, 1963, P.L. 1131, No. 483             Cl. 71
                                  AN ACT

     Providing for the collection, maintenance and availability of
        information concerning certain interstate compacts and
        agreements.

        The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
     hereby enacts as follows:

        Section 1.  This act shall be known and may be cited as the
     "Interstate Agreements Records Act."
        Section 2.  (a) The Department of State shall collect,
     compile and keep current a list of all existing or proposed
     interstate compacts and other intergovernmental agreements
     between or among states, subdivisions of this State and other
     states, or between this State or any subdivision thereof and the
     Federal Government, having the force of law to which this State
     or any subdivision thereof is or may be eligible to become a
     party. Such list shall contain the citations to the statutes or
     other official documents of this State, containing the text of
     any such compact or agreement, together with listing of all
     other jurisdictions party to the compact or agreement, the date
     on which each such jurisdiction entered into participation in
     such compact or agreement with this State or subdivision
     thereof, the status of each such compact or agreement in respect
     of withdrawals therefrom and the citations to any act or
     resolution of the Congress of the United States, if any,
     consenting to such compact or agreement. The list required to be
     kept pursuant to this paragraph shall also include compacts and
     agreements adopted by this State or any subdivision thereof but
     not in effect by reason of the absence of such other parties
     thereto as may be necessary to make the compact or agreement
     effective and binding, and compacts and agreements to which this
     State or any subdivision thereof is eligible to become a party.
        (b)  In any case where the statutes of this State do not
     contain the full text of a compact or agreement to which
     subsection (a) of this section applies, the Department of State
     shall secure a true copy of the compact or agreement and keep
     the same on file.
        (c)  Any amendment, supplementary agreement or administrative
     rule or regulation having the force of law implementing, adding
     to or modifying any such compact or agreement to which this
     State is party shall be listed or filed in the same manner as
     the compact or agreement itself.
        (d)  The Department of State shall make copies of the
     compacts and agreements or the list maintained pursuant to this
     act, and any information contained therein available on request
     to the public, upon the payment of the charges made for
     certified copies of other records on file in the department, and
     to the branches and departments of the Commonwealth and its
     political subdivisions concerned, without charge.
        (e)  The listing, filing, publication or distribution
     requirements of this act shall be in addition to, and not in
     substitution for, any such requirements contained in particular
     compacts or agreements to which this State is or may become a
     party.
        Section 3.  Every department, officer or agent of this
     Commonwealth and of its political subdivisions thereof, who
     shall execute any instrument set forth in section 2, shall
     furnish a copy thereof to the Department of State.
        Section 4.  This act shall take effect immediately.