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PUBLIC LAW 90-181-DEC. 8, 1967

[81 STAT.

and the board of commissioners of Washington County, Pennsylvania, shall include the rij^ht to sublease on the same terms and conditions set out in this paragraph designated (d) to any individual, corporation, municipal subdivision or municipal authority without the approval of the Wheeling Creek Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention (Commission. "(e) To enter into contracts and other arrangements with agencies of the United States, with persons, firms or corporations, including both public and private corporations, with the government of the state and the government of the commonwealth, or any department or agency of the United States, the state or the commonwealth, with governmental divisions, with soil conservation, drainage, flood control, soil erosion or other improvement districts in the state or the commonwealth, for cooperation or assistance in constructing, improving, operating or maintaining works of improvement within the district, and public fish and wildlife or recreational development and facilities in connection with works of improvement, or in preventing floods, damage from sediment deposited by floodwaters, or in clearance of stream beds, or in conserving, developing, utilizing and disposing of water in the district, or for making surveys, investigations or reports thereof. "(f) To apply for, receive and use grants-in-aid, donations and contributions from any source or sources, and to accept and use, consistent with the purposes of this compact, bequests, devises, gifts and donations from any person, firm, corporation, state, commonwealth or agency or political subdivision thereof. "(g) To do any and all things necessary or convenient for the pvirpose of promoting, developing and advancing the pvirposes of said district herein set forth, and in promoting, developing and advancing the recreational development and facilities incidental to the works of improvement that shall be constructed to achieve said purposes. " (h) To delegate any authority ^iven to it by law to any of its agents or employees, and to exceed its funds in the execution of the powers and authority herein given. "ARTICLE VII. FISCAL A F F A I R S. "The commission shall subihit at the appropriate or designated time to the board of commissioners of the County of Ohio, West Virginia, the county court of Marshall County, West Virginia, the board of commissioners of Greene County, Pennsylvania, and the board of commissioners of Washington County, Pennsylvania, an annual budget of its estimated expenditure, which budget shall contain specific recommendations of the amount or amounts to be appropriated by each of the named governing bodies. "The commission shall not incur any obligation prior to the commitment or allotment of funds by the named gOA^erning bodies or by other sources adequate to meet the same, "The commission shall keep acxiurate accounts of all receipts and disbursements, which accounts shall be open for inspection at any reasonable time and shall be subject to audit by representatives of contributing political subdivisions and of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and State of West Virginia. The receipts and disbursements of the commission shall be subject to the audit and accounting procedures established under its by-laws: Provided, That all receipts and disbursements of the commission shall be audited yearly by a qualified public accountant, and the report of the audit shall be transmitted to each contributor of funds to the district or commission. "ARTICLE VIIL EXEMPTION FROM T A X E S AND F E E S. "The district and the property belonging to the district shall be exempt from the payment of all taxes or fees imposed by the Common-

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