PRINTER'S NO. 49
No. 60 Session of 1991
INTRODUCED BY LESCOVITZ, COY, CAWLEY AND COLAIZZO,
JANUARY 15, 1991
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, JANUARY 15, 1991
AN ACT
1 Authorizing the Secretary of Transportation to negotiate an
2 interstate compact with states adjoining this Commonwealth
3 concerning maintenance and repair of public highways,
4 transportation facilities and rights-of-way on or along state
5 lines.
6 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
7 hereby enacts as follows:
8 Section 1. Authority .
9 The Secretary of Transportation is authorized to negotiate a
10 compact with the duly authorized agents of any one or more of
11 the States of Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Ohio and
12 West Virginia in accordance with the Constitution of the United
13 States, concerning maintenance and repair of public highways,
14 transportation facilities and rights-of-way situated on or along
15 the line between the Commonwealth and any of the states
16 enumerated above, whereby the Commonwealth and any of these
17 other states mutually agree to maintain and repair those
18 portions of such public highways, transportation facilities and
19 rights-of-way as are situated within their respective
1 jurisdictions.
2 Section 2. Submission to General Assembly for ratification.
3 The compact negotiated by the Secretary of Transportation
4 shall be submitted by the Governor to the General Assembly and
5 shall become immediately operative as to the Commonwealth and
6 other states that ratify it whenever it has been ratified by a
7 duly enacted law of this Commonwealth, and by any other states
8 as their laws may prescribe, and the Congress of the United
9 States has, if required, consented thereto.
10 Section 3. Effective date.
11 This act shall take effect immediately.
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