The Vermont Statutes Online
The Statutes below include the actions of the 2025 session of the General Assembly.
NOTE: The Vermont Statutes Online is an unofficial copy of the Vermont Statutes Annotated that is provided as a convenience.
(Cite as: 8 V.S.A. § 8517)
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§ 8517. Binding effect of this compact
(a) All lawful actions of the Commission, including all rules and operating procedures
adopted by the Commission, are binding upon the compacting states.
(b) All agreements between the Commission and the compacting states are binding in accordance
with their terms.
(c) Upon the request of a party to a conflict over the meaning or interpretation of Commission
actions, and upon a majority vote of the compacting states, the Commission may issue
advisory opinions regarding the meaning or interpretation in dispute.
(d) In the event any provision of this compact exceeds the constitutional limits imposed
on the legislature of any compacting state, the obligations, duties, powers, or jurisdiction
sought to be conferred by that provision upon the Commission shall be ineffective
as to that compacting state, and those obligations, duties, powers, or jurisdiction
shall remain in the compacting state and shall be exercised by the agency thereof
to which those obligations, duties, powers, or jurisdiction is delegated by law in
effect at the time this compact becomes effective. (Added 2005, No. 70, § 2.)