Ch. 37                                     2004 LAWS OF MARYLAND

5.2    The enforcement and applicability of natural resources, CRIMINAL, and
boating laws and regulations referenced in this Compact shall be limited to the lands
and waters of the Jennings Randolph Lake Project, including but not limited to the
prevailing reciprocal fishing laws and regulations between the States of Maryland
and West Virginia.

5.3    Nothing in this Compact shall be construed as obligating any party hereto
to the expenditure of funds or the future payment of money in excess of
appropriations authorized by law.

5.4    The provisions of this Compact shall be severable, and if any phrase,
clause, sentence or provision of the Jennings Randolph Lake Project Compact is
declared to be unconstitutional or inapplicable to any signatory party or agency of any
party, the constitutionality and applicability of the Compact shall not be otherwise
affected as to any other provision, party, or agency. It is the legislative intent that the
provisions of this Compact be reasonably and liberally construed to effectuate the
stated purposes of the Compact.

5.5    No member of or delegate to Congress, or signatory shall be admitted to
any share or part of this Compact, or to any benefit that may arise therefrom; but this
provision shall not be construed to extend to this agreement if made with a
corporation for its general benefit.

5.6    When this Compact has been ratified by the legislature of each respective
State, when the Governor of West Virginia and the Governor of Maryland have
executed this Compact on behalf of their respective States and have caused a verified
copy thereof to be filed with the Secretary of State of each respective State, when the
Baltimore District Engineer of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has executed its
concurrence with this Compact, and when this Compact has been consented to by the
Congress of the United States, then this Compact shall become operative and
effective.

5.7    Either State may, by legislative act, after one year's written notice to the
other, withdraw from this Compact. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers may withdraw
its concurrence with this Compact upon one year's written notice from the Baltimore
District Engineer to the Governor of each State.

5.8    This Compact may be amended from time to time.

Each proposed amendment shall be presented in resolution form to the
Governor of each State and the Baltimore District Engineer of the U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers. An amendment to this Compact shall become effective only after it has
been ratified by the legislatures of both signatory States and concurred in by the U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District. Amendments shall become effective
thirty days after the date of the last concurrence or ratification.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act may not take
effect until a similar Act is enacted by the State of West Virginia; that the State of
West Virginia is requested to concur in this Act of the General Assembly of Maryland
by the enactment of a similar Act; that the Department of Legislative Services shall
notify the appropriate officials of the State of West Virginia and the United States

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