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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. |
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| | | 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. |
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| | | 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. |
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| | | 6.__Executive committee.__The interstate commission shall | | establish an executive committee that includes commission | | officers, members and others as determined by the bylaws.__The | | executive committee has power to act on behalf of the interstate | | commission during periods when the interstate commission is not | | in session, with the exception of rulemaking or amendments to the | | compact.__The executive committee oversees the day-to-day | | activities of the administration of the compact managed by the | | executive director and interstate commission staff; administers | | enforcement and compliance with the provisions of the compact, | | its bylaws and rules; and performs other duties as directed by | | the interstate commission or as set forth in the bylaws. |
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| | | 7.__Member participation.__Each commissioner of the interstate | | commission has the right and power to cast a vote to which the | | commissioner's state is entitled and to participate in the | | business and affairs of the interstate commission.__A | | commissioner must vote in person and may not delegate a vote to | | another compacting state, except a commissioner, in consultation | | with the state council, may appoint another authorized | | representative, in the absence of the commissioner from that | | state, to cast a vote on behalf of the compacting state at a | | specified meeting.__The bylaws may provide for members' | | participation in meetings by telephone or other means of | | telecommunication or electronic communication. |
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