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imposed for violations shall be collected as fines are collected in the
signatory state within which the offense was committed. Unless
otherwise required by the law of the signatory, all fines collected
shall be paid to the Commission by the officer whose duty it is to
collect such fines.

(b)  Notwithstanding any criminal liability, any person violating
any provision of this compact or any regulation of the Commission,
shall be civilly liable to the Commission for any actual damage
sustained by the Commission by reason of such violation.

(c)   The penal sanctions herein provided shall not be applicable to
any failure or refusal to pay any charge or assessment imposed by
the Commission.

15.14. Tort Liability.—The Commission shall be liable for the
negligence or warranty of its officers, agents, and employees only to
the extent of the limits of the insurance coverage required by
Section 15.03, and to that extent the defense of governmental
immunity shall not be a bar to action or recovery.

15.15. Transfer of Employees and Property; Abolition of Inter'
state Commission on the Potomac River Basin; Repeal of Potomac
River Sanitation Compact; and Payment of Certain Expenses.—(a)
Effective upon the election of the first chairman of the Potomac River
Commission created by Article 2 of this compact, all money, property
and other assets of the Interstate Commission on the Potomac River
Basin created by the Potomac River Sanitation Compact (approved
by Congress, July 11, 1940) are hereby transferred to, and all of its
liabilities are hereby imposed upon, the said Potomac River
Basin Commission, and all employees of said Interstate Commission
are hereby transferred at their then current salaries to said Potomac
River Basin Commission subject to the authority vested in it by
said Article 2; and all programs and activities of said Interstate
Commission then in effect shall thereupon be programs and activities
of the Potomac River Basin Commission until changed or terminated
by it. Effective six months after the election of the first chairman of
the Potomac River Basin Commission, the Interstate Commission
on the Potomac River Basin shall thereupon be abolished and the
Potomac River Sanitation Compact repealed. During said six-month
period the Interstate Commission shall have a final examination and
audit made of its accounts and shall make a final report of its opera-
tions and transactions.

(b)  From the money transferred by subsection (a) of this Section
15.15 the Potomac River Basin Commission shall pay the expense of
the audit and report required by subsection (a) and the actual
expenses incurred by any commissioner or officer of the Interstate
Commission incident to his performance of any function in connection
with the transfer of assets, liabilities and personnel to the Potomac
River Commission or the winding up of the affairs of said Interstate
Commission, or which may be requested of him by said Potomac
River Basin Commission.

(c)  Except as provided in subsection (b) of this Section 15.15,
the money transferred by subsection (a) of this Section 15.15 shall
be used only for payment of the salaries and related expenses of
employees transferred to, and for the discharge of liabilities imposed
upon, the Commission by subsection (a) until other funds are
available to the Commission for payment of salaries.