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administer water resources related public recreational projects and
facilities and may contribute to the costs of construction, operation,
maintenance and administration thereof undertaken by others than
the Commission. The Commission may, by lease or any other form
of contract or agreement, undertake to operate, maintain or admin-
ister any water resources related public recreational project or
facility and with respect thereto may exercise any power, not incon-
sistent with such lease, contract or agreement, which it might exer-
cise with respect to any project or facility owned by it. In the
operation, maintenance and administration of any water resources
related public recreational project or facility, whether or not owned
by it, the Commission may act through public or private lessees or
concessionaires.

8.04. Uniformity of Fishing and Boating Laws on Certain
Waters.—Whenever two or more signatory states have a common
boundary in or contiguous to any body of water or portion thereof
within the basin, unless prohibited by the law of such signatory state,
the Commission, board, or other agency from each such signatory
state, having jurisdiction over the regulation of fishing, or boating,
or health and safety aspects of recreational activities, in or upon
such waters, may agree upon, and by rules or regulations provide
for, uniform enforcement relating to the aforesaid activities with
respect to any such waters mutually designated or agreed upon.
Infractions of laws, and rules and regulations on such bodies of
water shall be prosecuted in the appropriate court within the terri-
torial jurisdiction where the offense occurred. If the offense occurs
on or so near the boundary between two signatory states that it
cannot be readily determined in which state the offense occurred,
it shall be presumed that such offense occurred within the juris-
diction of the court where the enforcement action was instituted by
the enforcement officer.

8.05.    Restrictions on Commission Construction and Operation.—
In order to assure utilization of the functions, powers and respon-
sibilities of existing state agencies, the Commission shall not engage
in the operation of any recreational facilities, nor construct any
project or facility solely for recreational purposes, unless the com-
missioner from the signatory state in which the project or facility
is located has approved the same.

8.06.    Definition.—For purposes of this article public recreational
project or facility shall mean a recreational project or facility open
to the general public either free or on a fee basis.

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ARTICLE 9
OTHER PUBLIC VALUES

9.01. Purpose and Findings.—Comprehensive planning is essen-
tial to assure orderly development, safeguard the intrinsic natural
values of the Potomac Basin and preserve the beauty and environ-
mental amenities of the region. This need is greatest in those locali-
ties most subject to the pressures of urbanization, expanding popula-
tion and industrial development. Accordingly the legislative bodies
of the respective signatories declare that, in addition to water re-
sources management, the purposes of this compact are to preserve