PUBLIC LAWS-CHS. 127, 128-MAY 19, 1949 "Groups organized on a nonprofit basis." (2) the term "groups organized on a nonprofit basis" shall include but not be limited to, mutual ownership or cooperative housing asso- ciations or limited dividend corporations which by the terms of their charters and bylaws have limited their rate of return to a rate no higher than the Public Housing Commissioner deems reasonable and necessary. Approved May 19, 1949. [CHAPTER 128] May 19, 1949 [S. J. Res. 42] [Public Law 66] Gulf States Marine Fisheries Compact. Oonsent of Congress. 1Stat. 15. Gulf States Marine Fisheries Commis- sion. JOINT RESOLUTION Granting the consent and approval of Congress to an interstate compact relating to the better utilization of the fisheries (marine, shell, and anadromous) of the Gulf Coast and creating the Gulf States Marine Fisheries Commission. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the consent of Con- gress is hereby given to any two or more of the States of Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas to enter into, the following compact and agreement relating to the better utilization of the fish- eries (marine, shell, and anadromous) of the Gulf Coast and creating the Gulf States Marine Fisheries Commission. The compact reads as follows: GULF STATES MARINE FISHERIES COMPACT The contracting states solemnly agree: ARTIcLE I Whereas the Gulf Coast states have the proprietary interest in and jurisdiction over fisheries in the waters within their respective bound- aries, it is the purpose of this compact to promote the better utiliza- tion of the fisheries, marine, shell and anadromous, of the seaboard of the Gulf of Mexico, by the development of a joint program for the promotion and protection of such fisheries and the prevention of the physical waste of the fisheries from any cause. ARTICLE II This compact shall become operative immediately as to those states ratifying it whenever any two or more of the states of Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas have ratified it and the Congress has given its consent subject to Article 1, Section 10, of the Constitution of the United States. Any state contiguous to any of the aforementioned states or riparian upon waters which flow into waters under the jurisdiction of any of the aforementioned states and which are frequented by anadromous fish or marine species may become a party hereto as hereinafter provided. ARTCLE III Each state joining herein shall appoint three representatives to a commission hereby constituted and designated as the Gulf States Marine Fisheries Commission. One shall be the head of the admin- istrative agency of such state charged with the conservation of the fishery resources to which this compact pertains or, if there be more than one officer or agency, the official of that state named by the governor thereof. The second shall be a member of the legislature of such state designated by such legislature or in the absence of such designation, such legislator shall be designated by the governor 70 [63 STAT.
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