Legislation

§ 29-l. International Emergency Management Assistance Compact.
Notwithstanding any other law, the state, through the governor, may
enter the compact established by the emergency management assistance
memorandum of understanding (executed on July eighteenth, two thousand
by the states of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode
Island, and Vermont and the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick,
Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and Quebec) at the
twenty-fifth conference of New England Governors and Eastern Canadian
Premiers, as authorized by Article II(j) of the Agreement between the
Government of the United States and the Government of Canada on
Cooperation in Comprehensive Emergency Planning and Management renewed
on December second, nineteen ninety-eight. Such compact shall be deemed
ratified by the legislature upon the governor's certification to the
temporary president of the senate, the speaker of the assembly, and the
secretary of state, that New York has entered into the compact.