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<section article="ghu" article_name="Human Services" number="9-314" title_number="9" title_name="Juvenile Services" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Interstate Compact for Juveniles">
  <text>Article XIII.  Binding Effect of Compact and Other Laws.</text>
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Nothing in this subtitle prevents the enforcement of any other law of a compacting state that is not inconsistent with this Compact.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>All compacting states’ laws other than state constitutions and other interstate compacts conflicting with this Compact are superseded to the extent of the conflict.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>All lawful actions of the Interstate Commission, including all rules and bylaws promulgated by the Interstate Commission, are binding upon the compacting states.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>All agreements between the Interstate Commission and the compacting states are binding in accordance with their terms.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Upon the request of a party to a conflict over meaning or interpretation of Interstate Commission actions, and upon a majority vote of the compacting states, the Interstate Commission may issue advisory opinions regarding such meaning or interpretation.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>In the event any provision of this Compact exceeds the constitutional limits imposed on the legislature of any compacting state, the obligations, duties, powers, or jurisdiction sought to be conferred by such provision upon the Interstate Commission shall be ineffective and such obligations, duties, powers, or jurisdiction shall remain in the compacting state and shall be exercised by the agency thereof to which such obligations, duties, powers, or jurisdiction are delegated by law in effect at the time this Compact becomes effective.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
