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South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 48
Chapter 37
S.C. Code Ann. tit. 48, ch. 37
Southeastern Interstate Forest Fire Protection Compact
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48-37-10
Governor may execute compact; legislative approval given
48-37-20
Terms of compact
48-37-30
Effective date of compact; exchange of official documents
48-37-40
State Forester to act as compact administrator; advisory committee of Southeastern Interstate Forest Fire Protection Compact
48-37-50
Powers and duties of State Forester and advisory committee; state officers, bureaus, departments and employees shall cooperate
V
Whenever the forces of any member state are rendering outside aid pursuant to the request of another member state under this compact, the employees of such state shall, under the direction of the officers of the state to which they are rendering aid, have the same powers (except the power of arrest), duties, rights, privileges and immunities as comparable employees of the state to which they are rendering aid.
VI
In pursuance of ARTICLE III of the compact as set out in Section 48-37-20, the State Forester of the State Commission of Forestry shall act as compact administrator for the State of South Carolina during his term of office as State Forester, and his successor as compact administrator shall be his successor as State Forester. As compact administrator he shall be an ex officio member of the Southeastern Interstate Forest Fire Protection Compact advisory committee, and chairman ex officio of the South Carolina members of such advisory committee. There shall be four members of the advisory committee from this State. Two of the members from this State shall be members of the General Assembly, one from the Senate and one from the House of Representatives, designated by the South Carolina Commission on Interstate Cooperation, and the terms of any such members shall terminate at the time they cease to hold legislative office, and their successors as members shall be named in like manner.
IX
This compact shall continue in force and remain binding on each state ratifying it until the legislature or the governor of such state, as the laws of such state shall provide, takes action to withdraw therefrom. Such action shall not be effective until six months after notice thereof has been sent by the chief executive of the state desiring to withdraw to the chief executives of all states then parties to the compact.
48-37-60
Chapter to not limit powers of State Commission of Forestry