The Vermont Statutes Online
The Statutes below include the actions of the 2025 session of the General Assembly.
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(Cite as: 28 V.S.A. § 1353)
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§ 1353. Article III; The compact commission
(a) The compacting states hereby create the Interstate Commission for Adult Offender Supervision.
The Interstate Commission shall be a body corporate and the joint agency of the compacting
states. The Interstate Commission shall have all the responsibilities, powers, and
duties set forth in this compact, including the power to sue and be sued, and such
additional powers as may be conferred upon it by subsequent action of the respective
legislatures of the compacting states in accordance with the terms of this compact.
(b) The Interstate Commission shall consist of commissioners selected and appointed by
resident members of a state council for interstate adult offender supervision for
each state.
(c) In addition to the commissioners who shall be the voting representatives of each state,
the Interstate Commission shall include individuals who are not commissioners but
who are members of interested organizations. Such noncommissioner members shall include
a member of the national organizations of governors, legislators, state chief justices,
attorneys general, and crime victims. All noncommissioner members of the Interstate
Commission shall be ex officio, nonvoting members. The Interstate Commission may provide
in its bylaws for such additional, ex officio, nonvoting members as it deems necessary.
(d) Each compacting state represented at any meeting of the Interstate Commission shall
have one vote. A majority of the compacting states shall constitute a quorum for the
transaction of business, unless a larger quorum is required by the bylaws of the Interstate
Commission.
(e) The Interstate Commission shall meet at least once each calendar year. The chair may
call additional meetings and, upon the request of 27 or more compacting states, shall
call additional meetings. Public notice shall be given of all meetings and meetings
shall be open to the public.
(f) The Interstate Commission shall establish an executive committee which shall include
commission officers, members, and others as shall be determined by the bylaws. The
executive committee shall have the power to act on behalf of the Interstate Commission
during periods when the Interstate Commission is not in session, with the exception
of rulemaking or amendment to the Compact. The executive committee shall oversee the
day-to-day activities managed by the executive director and Interstate Commission
staff, administer enforcement and compliance with the provisions of the Compact, its
bylaws and as directed by the Interstate Commission, and perform other duties as directed
by the Commission or set forth in the bylaws. (Added 1999, No. 90 (Adj. Sess.), § 3, eff. April 27, 2000.)