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Show 226 INTERSTATE COMPACTS commissioners shall serve without compensation but shall be paid their actual expenses incurred incident to the performance of their duties. ARTICLE V 1. The commission shall elect from its number a chairman and vice chairman and shall appoint and at its pleasure remove or discharge such officers and legal, clerical, expert, and other assistants as may be required to carry the provisions of this compact into effect, and shall fix and determine their duties, qualifications, and compensations. It shall adopt a seal iand suitable bylaws and shall promulgate rules and regulations for its management and control. It may maintain one or more offices for the transaction of its busi- ness and may meet at any time or place within the signatory States. A majority of the members from each State shall constitute a quo- rum for the transaction of business, the exercise of any powers, or the performance of any duties, but no action of the commission shall be binding unless at least three of the members from each State shall vote in favor thereof. The commission shall keep accurate accounts of all receipts and dis- bursements and shall make an annual report to the governor and the legislature of each State setting forth in detail the operations and transactions conducted by it pursuant to this compact, and shall make recommendations for any legislative action deemed by it advisable, including amendments to the statutes of the signatory States which may be necessary to carry out the intent and purpose of this compact, and changes in the district which concentration of population or other cause may require. The commission shall not incur any obligations for salaries or office or other administrative expenses prior to the making of appropria- tions adequate to meet the same, nor shall the commission pledge the credit of any of the signatory States except by and with the authority of the legislatures thereof. Each State reserves the right to provide hereafter by law for the examination and audit of the accounts of the comimission by its comptroller or other official. The commissioners shall meet and organize within ten days after the effective date of this compact. ARTICLE VI 1. It is recognized by the signatory States that, where tidal waters are used for such varied purposes as bathing, navigation, shellfish culture, the development of fish life, and the disposal of wastes, no single standard of purity is practicable in all parts of the district. In order to attain the objects of this compact, the commission, after proper study and after conducting public hearings upon due notice, shall group the designated waters of the district into classes. Where local conditions shall have changed in the future to such an extent that changes in classification become necessary, the commission may, after conducting public hearings upon due notice, adopt such changes. Two general classifications shall be used: (1) Class A, in which the designated water areas are expected to be used primarily for recreational purposes, shellfish culture, or the development of fish life |