Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 76.djvu/851

 76 STAT. ] "SEC.

PUBLIC LAW 87-783-OCT. 10, 1962

803

3. JURISDICTION OF COURT.—The officer making an arrest or

preferring a charge for violation of a regulation of the Commission or an applicable state law respecting the waters within the Commission's jurisdiction shall take the alleged offender to a court of competent jurisdiction in either state, in a county adjacent to the portion of the Potomac River where the alleged offense occurred, which shall thereupon have jurisdiction over the offense. "SEC. 4. DISPOSITION or F I N E S AND FORFEITURES.—All fines imposed for violation of regulations of the Commission or applicable state laws respecting the waters within the Commission's jurisdiction shall be paid into the court in which the case is prosecuted, and accounted for under the laws applicable to that court. Any property confiscated under the provisions of this compact shall be turned over to the Commission, which may retain, use or dispose of it as it deems best. '

"AJITICLE VI "COMMISSION FINANCED

1. BUDGET.—The Commission shall approve and adopt a proposed annual budget showing estimated income, revenues, appropriations, and grants from all sources, and estimated necessary expenditures and shall send a copy thereof to the Governors of Maryland and Virginia. "SEC. 2. APPROPRIATIONS.—The said Governors shal^ place in the proposed budget of their respective states for each year the sum of not less than fifty thousand dollars ($50,000.00) for the expenses and the other purposes of the Commission for that year, except that none of the sum so appropriated shall be used for law enforcement purposes; and the General Assembly of each of the two states agrees to appropriate annually not less than this sum to the Commission. "SEC. 3. GENERAL F U N D. — (a) The General Fund shall consist of: " (1) All income and revenue received from the issuance of licenses under this compact; "(2) The proceeds of the disposition of property confiscated pursuant to the provisions of this compact; "(3) The proceeds of the inspection tax upon oysters imposed pursuant to this compact; and "(4) The funds appropriated to the Commission by the two States. " (b) The General Fund of the Commission shall be kept in such bank or depository as the Commission shall from time to time select. The General Fund shall be -audited annually by the Auditor of Public Accounts of Virginia and the State Auditor of Maryland acting jointly, and at such other times as the Commission may request. "SECTION

"ARTICLE

VII

"EFFECT ON EXISTING LAWS AND PRIOR COMPACT

1. EXISTING RIGHTS.—The rights, including the privilege of erecting and maintaining wharves and other improvements, of the citizens of each State along the shores of the Potomac River adjoining their lands shall be neither diminished, restricted, enlarged, increased nor otherwise altered by this compact, and the decisions of the courts construing that portion of Article VII of the Compact of 1785 relating to the rights of riparian owners shall be given full force and effect. "SEC. 2. EXISTING LAWS.—The laws of the State of Maryland relating to finfish, crabs, oysters, and clams in the Potomac River, as set "SECTION

'

�