Volume 70
Public Law 84–1025
To authorize negotiations with respect to a compact to provide for a definition or relocation of the common boundary between Arizona and California, and for the appointment by the President of a Federal representative to the compact negotiations.
Approved August 8, 1956
Statutory text
AN ACT
To authorize negotiations with respect to a compact to provide for a definition or relocation of the common boundary between Arizona and California, and for the appointment by the President of a Federal representative to the compact negotiations.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the consent of Congress is hereby given to the States of Arizona and California to negotiate and enter into a compact with respect to the definition or relocation of the common boundary of said States.
Sec. 2.
Such consent is given upon the following conditions:
A representative of the United States, not a resident of either Arizona or California, shall be appointed by the President of the United States; such representative shall participate in such negotiations and shall make a report to the President and to the Congress of the proceedings and of any compact entered into; and
Such compact shall not be binding or obligatory upon either of such States unless and until it has been ratified by the legislature of each of such State and consented to by the Congress of the United States.
Sec. 3.
The right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved.
Approved August 8, 1956.