§ 149. Enactment of compact. 1. The pest control compact is hereby\nenacted into law and entered into with all other jurisdictions legally\njoining therein in the form substantially as follows:\n PEST CONTROL COMPACT\n ARTICLE I\n Findings\n The party states find that:\n (a) In the absence of the higher degree of cooperation among them\npossible under this compact, the annual loss of approximately seven\nbillion dollars from the depredations of pests is virtually certain to\ncontinue, if not to increase.\n (b) Because of varying climatic, geographic and economic factors, each\nstate may be affected differently by particular species of pests; but\nall states share the inability to protect themselves fully against those\npests which present serious dangers to them.\n (c) The migratory character of pest infestations makes it necessary\nfor states both adjacent to and distant from one another, to complement\neach other's activities when faced with conditions of infestation and\nreinfestation.\n (d) While every state is seriously affected by a substantial number of\npests, and every state is susceptible of infestation by many species of\npests not now causing damage to its crop and plant life and products,\nthe fact that relatively few species of pests present equal danger to or\nare of interest to all states makes the establishment and operation of\nan insurance fund, from which individual states may obtain financial\nsupport for pest control programs of benefit to them in other states and\nto which they may contribute in accordance with their relative\ninterests, the most equitable means of financing cooperative pest\neradication and control programs.\n ARTICLE II\n Definitions\n As used in this compact, unless the context clearly requires a\ndifferent construction:\n (a) "State" means a state, territory or possession of the United\nStates, the District of Columbia, and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.\n (b) "Requesting state" means a state which invokes the procedures of\nthe compact to secure the undertaking or intensification of measures to\ncontrol or eradicate one or more pests within one or more other states.\n (c) "Responding state" means a state requested to undertake or\nintensify the measures referred to in subdivision (a) of article VI of\nthis compact.\n (d) "Pest" means any invertebrate animal, pathogen, parasitic plant or\nsimilar or allied organism which can cause disease or damage in any\ncrops, trees, shrubs, grasses or other plants of substantial value.\n (e) "Insurance fund" means the pest control insurance fund established\npursuant to this compact.\n (f) "Governing board" means the administrators of this compact\nrepresenting all of the party states when such administrators are acting\nas a body in pursuance of authority vested in them by this compact.\n (g) "Executive committee" means the committee established pursuant to\nsubdivision (e) of article V of this compact.\n ARTICLE III\n The Insurance Fund\n There is hereby established the pest control insurance fund for the\npurpose of financing other than normal pest control operations which\nstates may be called upon to engage in pursuant to this compact. The\ninsurance fund shall contain moneys appropriated to it by the party\nstates and any donations and grants accepted by it. All appropriations,\nexcept as conditioned by the rights and obligations of party states\nexpressly set forth in this compact, shall be unconditional and may not\nbe restricted by the appropriating state to use in the control of any\nspecified pest or pests. Donations and grants may be conditional or\nunconditional, provided that the insurance fund shall not accept any\ndonation or grant whose terms are inconsistent with any provision of\nthis compact.\n
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