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agency, person or circumstances shall not be affected thereby. If this
compact shall be held contrary to the constitution of any state
participating therein, the compact shall remain in full force and
effect as to the remaining states and in full force and effect as to the
state affected as to all sever able matters.

367.

The governor is further authorized and directed to execute, with
any other state or states legally joining in the same, an additional
article to said compact in the form substantially as follows:

ARTICLE XVI—Additional Article

That this Article shall provide additional remedies, and shall be
binding only as among and between those party states which
specifically execute the same.

For the purposes of this article, "child'', as used herein, means any
minor within the jurisdictional age limits of any court in the home
state.

When any child is brought before a court of a state of which such
child is not a resident, and such state is willing to permit such child's
return to the home state of such child, such home state, upon being
so advised by the state in which such proceeding is pending, shall
immediately institute proceedings to determine the residence and
jurisdictional facts as to such child in such home state, and upon
finding that such child is in fact a resident of said state and subject
to the jurisdiction of the court thereof, shall within five days author-
ize the return of such child to the home state, and to the parents
or custodial agency legally authorized to accept such custody in such
home state, and at the expense of such home state, to be paid from
such funds as such home state may procure, DESIGNATE, or pro-
vide, prompt acting ACTION being of the essence.

368. The Governor is further authorized and directed to execute,
with any other state or states legally joining in the same, the follow-
ing amendments to said compact in the form substantially as follows:

(a) Amendment to the Interstate Compact on Juveniles,
Concerning Interstate Rendition of Juveniles
Alleged to be Delinquent

(i) This amendment shall provide additional remedies, and shall
be binding only as among and between those party states which
specifically execute the same.

(ii) All provisions and procedures of Articles V and VI of the
Interstate Compact on Juveniles shall be construed to apply to any
juvenile charged with being a delinquent by reason of a violation
of any criminal law. Any juvenile charged with being a delinquent
by reason of violating any criminal law, shall be returned to the
requesting state upon a requisition to the state where the juvenile
may be found. A petition in such case shall be filed in a court of
competent jurisdiction in the requesting state where the violation
of criminal law is alleged to have been committed. The petition may
be filed regardless of whether the juvenile has left the state before
or after the filing of the petition. The requisition described in Ar-
ticle V of the compact shall be forwarded by the judge of the court
in which the petition has been filed.