§9903.__Interstate Commission for Juveniles -- Article 3

1.__Commission created.__The compacting states hereby create the Interstate Commission for Juveniles.__The commission is a body corporate and joint agency of the compacting states.__The commission has all the responsibilities, powers and duties set forth in this section, including the power to sue and be sued, and such additional powers as may be conferred upon it by subsequent action of the respective legislatures of the compacting states in accordance with the terms of this compact.

2.__Commissioners.__The interstate commission consists of commissioners appointed by the appropriate appointing authority in each state pursuant to the rules and requirements of each compacting state and in consultation with the state council.__The commissioner is the compact administrator, deputy compact administrator or designee from that state who serves on the interstate commission in such capacity under or pursuant to the applicable law of the compacting state.

3.__Noncommissioner members.__In addition to the commissioners who are the voting representatives of each state, the interstate commission includes individuals who are not commissioners but who are members of interested organizations.__Those noncommissioner members must include a member of the national organizations of governors, legislators, state chief justices, attorneys general; members of the Interstate Compact for Adult Offender Supervision and Interstate Compact for the Placement of Children; juvenile justice and juvenile corrections officials; and crime victims.__ All noncommissioner members of the interstate commission are ex officio, nonvoting members.__The interstate commission may provide in its bylaws for such additional ex officio, nonvoting members, including members of other national organizations, as it considers necessary.

4.__Each state entitled to one vote; quorum.__Each compacting state represented at any meeting of the interstate commission is entitled to one vote.__A majority of the compacting states constitutes a quorum for the transaction of business, unless a larger quorum is required by the bylaws of the interstate commission.

5.__Meetings.__The interstate commission shall meet at least once each calendar year.__The chair may call additional meetings and, upon the request of a simple majority of the compacting states, shall call additional meetings.__Public notice must be given of all meetings and meetings are open to the public.