171-4 (1997)

NEVADA

INTERSTATE COMPACT FOR JURISDICTION ON THE COLORADO RIVER

NRS 171.078 Enactment. The Interstate Compact for Jurisdiction on the Colorado River, set forth in full in NRS 171.079, is hereby enacted into law.

(Added to NRS by 1987, 378)

REVISER’S NOTE.

Ch. 159, Statutes of Nevada 1987, contained a provision that was not codified that read as follows:

"The governor shall notify appropriate officers in the states party to the Interstate Compact for Jurisdiction on the Colorado River of the ratification by this state of that compact."

NRS 171.079 Text of compact. The Interstate Compact for Jurisdiction on the Colorado River is as follows:

ARTICLE I—Purpose and Policy

1. The legislature finds that law enforcement has been impaired in sections of the Colorado River forming an interstate boundary because of difficulty in determining precisely where a criminal act was committed.

2. The legislature intends that a person committing an act which is illegal in both states not be freed merely because neither state could establish that a crime was committed within its boundaries.

3. The Interstate Compact for Jurisdiction on the Colorado River is enacted to provide for enforcement of the laws of this state with regard to certain acts committed on the Colorado River, or any lake formed by or a part of the Colorado River, on either side of the boundary line with an adjoining state.

ARTICLE II—Definitions

As used in this compact, unless the context otherwise requires, "party state" means a state which has enacted this compact.

ARTICLE III—Concurrent Jurisdiction

1. If conduct is prohibited by two adjoining party states, courts and law enforcement officers in either state who have jurisdiction over criminal offenses committed in a county where the Colorado River, or any lake formed by or a part of the Colorado River, forms a common interstate boundary have concurrent jurisdiction to arrest, prosecute and try offenders for the prohibited conduct committed anywhere on the body of water forming a boundary between the two states.

2. This compact does not authorize:

(a) Prosecution of any person for conduct which is lawful in the state where it was committed.

(b) Any conduct prohibited by a party state.

ARTICLE IV—Ratification

This compact is ratified by enactment of the language of this compact, or substantially similar language expressing the same purpose, by at least two states of which the Colorado River forms a common boundary.

(Added to NRS by 1987, 378)