N.J.S.A. 32:21-8 — Supplemental compact to create Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission and promote better utilization of fisheries

32:21-8. Supplemental compact to create Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission and promote better utilization of fisheries The Governor is hereby authorized to enter into a supplemental compact on behalf of the State of New Jersey with any one or more of the States of Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida, or such other States as may become party to that compact, and supplementing the compact between the said States entitled "An act providing that the State of New Jersey may enter into a compact with any one or more of the States of Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida, and with such other States as may join, to promote the better utilization of the fisheries, marine, shell and anadromous of the Atlantic seaboard and to create the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission; providing for the members of such commission from the State of New Jersey; providing for the carrying out of said compact; and making an appropriation," which was executed on behalf of the said States and on behalf of the State of New Jersey on June third, one thousand nine hundred and forty-one (P.L.1941, c. 169), and which was consented to by the Congress of the United States on May fourth, one thousand nine hundred and forty-two (Chapter 283 of the Public Laws), which supplemental compact shall be in substantially the following form: "Supplemental compact between the said States supplementing the compact entitled "The Governor of this State is hereby authorized and directed to execute a compact on behalf of the State of New Jersey with any one or more of the States of Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida, and with such other States as may enter into the compact, legally joining therein in the form substantially as follows:' " L.1950, c. 275, p. 931, s. 1.

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