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Show OHIO RIVER SANITATION COMPACT 235 such State, or against any employe, department or subdivision of such municipality, corporation, person or other entity; provided, however^ such court may review the order and affirm, reverse or modify the same upon any of the grounds customarily applicable in proceedings for court review of administrative decisions. The Com- mission or, at its request, the Attorney General or other law enforcing official, shall have power to institute in such court any action for the enforcement of such order. article x The signatory States agree to appropriate for the salaries, office and other administrative expenses, their proper proportion of the annual budget as determined by the Commission and approved by the Governors of the signatory States, one-half of such amount to be prorated among the several States in proportion of their population within the District at the last preceding federal census, the other half to be prorated in proportion to their land area within the District. ARTICLE XI This compact shall become effective upon ratification by the legisla- tures of a majority of the States located within the District and upon approval by the Congress of the United States!; and shall become effective as to any additional States signing thereafter at the time of such signing. NOTES Congressional consent to negotiations.-By the Joint Resolution of June 8, 1936 (49 Stat. 1490), the Congress gave its consent to the negotiation by certain named States-among them, all of the States mentioned in the preamble to the Ohio River Valley Water Sanitation Compact-of "agreements or compacts for conserving and regulating the flow, lessening flood damage, removing sources of pollution of the waters thereof, or making other public improvements on any rivers or streams whose drainage basins lie within any two or more of the said States." The Joint Resolution also provided that no compact or agreement so entered into should be "binding or obligatory upon any State & party thereto unless and until it has been approved by the legislatures of each of the States whose assent is contemplated by the terms of the compact or agreement and by the Congress." State ratiftcatiom.-^-ll\in.ois, Act of July 22, 1939 (Laws 1939, p. 310; Smith-Hurd 111. Stat. 1966, Tit. lliy2, sec. 117). Indiana, Act of March 4, 1939 (Laws 1939, p. 122; 1961 Ann. Ind. Stat, sec. 68-601). Kentucky, Act of March 16,1940 (Acts 1940, p. 597; Baldwin's Ky. Rev. Stat. Ann. 1963, sec. 220.550). New York, Act of July 11,1939 (Laws 1939, p. 3434); Act of April 11, 1961 (Laws 1961, p. 1584; McKinney's Cons. L. N.Y. Book 44, sec. 1190.) Ohio, Act of May 29,1939 (Leg. Acts 1939, p. 447; Page's Ohio Rev. Code 1953 Ann., sec. 6113.01) ,l 1 Conditioned on ratification by New York, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. |