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Show WHEELING CREEK COMPACT 355 wealth of Pennsylvania joins with the State of West Virginia in negotiating and ratifying this compact; now therefore, ARTICLE II. WHEELING CREEK WATERSHED PROTECTION AND FLOOD PRE- VENTION DISTRICT CREATED The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the State of West Vir- ginia hereby create as an agency and instrumentality of the govern- ments thereof a district to be known as the "Wheeling Creek Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention District," hereinafter called the dis- trict, which shall embrace all territory in the Commonwealth of Penn- sylvania and the State of West Virginia, the water in which flows ultimately into Wheeling Creek or its tributaries. ARTICLE III. WHEELING CREEK WATERSHED PROTECTION AND FLOOD PRE- VENTION COMMISSION CREATED The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the State of West Vir- ginia hereby create as the governing body of the district the "Wheeling Creek Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Commission," here- inafter called the commission, which shall be a body corporate, with the powers and duties set forth herein, and such additional powers as may be conferred upon it by subsequent concurrent action of the General Assembly of Pennsylvania and the Legislature of West Vir- ginia or by act or acts of the Congress of the United States. ARTICLE IV. COMPOSITION OF COMMISSION The commission shall consist of five commissioners from Pennsyl- vania and five commissioners from West Virginia, each of whom shall be a citizen of the commonwealth or state from which he is appointed. The commissioners from the commonwealth and from the state shall be chosen in the manner and for the terms provided by the laws of the commonwealth or state from which they shall be appointed, and any commissioner may be removed or suspended from office as provided by the law of the commonwealth or state from which he shall be ap- pointed. Vacancies on the commission shall be filled in the manner provided by the laws of the commonwealth or state among whose representation on the commission the vacancy occurs. The commissioners shall serve without compensation from the com- mission, but they shall be paid by the commission their actual expenses incurred and incident to the performance of their duties. ARTICLE V. ORGANIZATION OF COMMISSION The commission shall meet and organize within sixty days after the effective date of this compact, 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 determine their qualifications and fix their duties and com- pensation. It shall adopt a seal and suitable bylaws, and shall adopt and promulgate rules and regulations for its management and control. |