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Show 122 INTERSTATE COMPACTS cost of such relocation payable by the commission shall not in any event exceed the expenditure required to serve the public convenience and necessity. 14.16 Rights of Way. Permission is hereby granted to the com- mission to locate, construct and maintain any aqueducts, lines, pipes, conduits and auxiliary facilities authorized to be acquired, constructed, owned, operated or maintained by the commission in, over, under or across any streets and highways now or hereafter owned, opened or dedicated to or for public use, subject to such reasonable conditions as the highway department of the signatory party may require. 14.17 Penal Sanction. Any^ person, association or corporation who violates or attempts or conspires to violate any provision of this com- pact or any rule, regulation or order of the commission duly made, promulgated or issued pursuant to the compact in addition to any other remedy, penalty or consequence provided by law shall be punish- able as may be provided by statute of any of itlie signatory parties within which the offense is committed; provided that in the absence of such provision any such person, association or corporation shall be liable to 'a penalty of not less than $50 nor more than $1,000 for each such offense to be fixed by the court which the commission may recover in its own name in any court of competent jurisdiction, and in a sum- mary proceeding where available under the practice and procedure of such court. For the purposes of this section in the event of a con- tinuing offense etach day of such violation, attempt or conspiracy shall constitute a separate offense. 14.18 Tort Liability. The commissiion shall be responsible for claims arising out of the negligent acts or omissions of its officers, agents and employees only to the extent and subject to the procedures prescribed by law generally with respect to officers, (agents and employees of the government of the United States. 14.19 Effect on Riparian Rights. Nothing contained in this com- pact shall be construed as affecting or intending to affect or in any way to interfere with the law of the respective signatory parties re- lating to riparian rights. 14.20 Amendments and Supplements. Amendments and supple- ments to thus compact to implement the purposes thereof may be adopted by legislative action of any of the signatory parties concurred in by all of the others. CONSTRUCTION AND SEVERABILTTY 14.21 The provisions of this Act and of agreements thereunder shall be severable and if any phrase, clause, sentence or provision of the Delaware River Basin Compact or such agreement is declared to be unconstitutional or the appl'icabiliity thereof to any signatory party, agency or person is held invalid, the constitutionality of the remainder of such compact or such agreement and the applicability thereof to any other signatory party, agency, person or circumstance shall not be affected thereby. It is the legislative intent that the provisions of such compact be reasonably and liberally construed. 14.22 Effective Date; Execution. This compact shall become bind- ing and effective thirty days after the enactment of concurring legis- |
