§ 11. — Authority for compact between Middle Northwest States as to jurisdiction of offenses committed on boundary waters.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 33USC11]
TITLE 33--NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS
CHAPTER 1--NAVIGABLE WATERS GENERALLY
SUBCHAPTER I--GENERAL PROVISIONS
Sec. 11. Authority for compact between Middle Northwest States
as to jurisdiction of offenses committed on boundary waters
The consent of the Congress is given to the States of North Dakota,
South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, and Nebraska, or any two or
more of them, by such agreement or compact as they may deem desirable or
necessary, or as may be evidenced by legislative acts enacted by any two
or more of said States, not in conflict with the Constitution of the
United States or any law thereof, to determine and settle the
jurisdiction to be exercised by said States, respectively, over offenses
arising out of the violation of the laws of any of said States upon any
of the waters forming the boundary lines between any two or more of said
States, or waters through which such boundary line extends, and that the
consent of the Congress be, and the same is, given to the concurrent
jurisdiction agreed to by the States of Minnesota and South Dakota, as
evidenced by the act of the Legislature of the State of Minnesota
approved April 20, 1917, and the act of the Legislature of the State of
South Dakota approved February 13, 1917.
(Mar. 4, 1921, ch. 176, 41 Stat. 1447.)
Codification
This section is from a resolution entitled a ``Joint Resolution
giving consent of the Congress of the United States to the States of
North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, and Nebraska, or
any two or more of said States, to agree upon the jurisdiction to be
exercised by said States over boundary waters between any two or more of
said States''.
