                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

DUTIES OF COMMISSION; POWERS AND DUTIES OF WATER CONTROL BOARD NOT AFFECTED;
DAMS OR STRUCTURES FOR PRODUCTION OF ELECTRIC POWER (§ 62.1-69)

The Potomac River Basin Commission of Virginia shall, if and when it shall come
into existence as hereinabove provided, act jointly with commissions appointed
for a like purpose by the states of West Virginia and Maryland, the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania and the District of Columbia, or by such of the same as shall
enter into the compact and with an additional three members to be appointed by
the President of the United States, as a unit of the Interstate Commission on
the Potomac River Basin which shall be constituted as provided by the compact
hereinabove mentioned. The Potomac River Basin Commission of Virginia shall
perform such further duties as shall be provided by the compact.
		No provision of this chapter or application thereof shall operate to repeal,
limit, affect or impair any provision or application of Chapter 3.1 (§
62.1-44.2 et seq.) of Title 62.1; and no provision of this chapter shall have
any effect upon the powers and duties of the State Water Control Board created
by Chapter 3.1 (§ 62.1-44.2 et seq.) of Title 62.1 and the operation of such
Board over the waters of the Commonwealth subject to its jurisdiction. Members
of the Potomac River Basin Commission of Virginia are prohibited from voting in
favor of any measure before the Interstate Potomac River Basin Commission which
might have any effect upon the powers and duties of the State Water Control
Board without the consent of such Board first had and obtained. Members of the
Potomac River Basin Commission of Virginia are prohibited from voting in favor
of the construction, with public funds, of any dam or other structure upon the
Potomac River or its tributaries in Virginia, which dam or other structure is
used or is capable of being used, directly or indirectly, in whole or in part
and whether as a single or multiple purpose, for the production by any
government or any agency or instrumentality thereof, of electric power and
energy.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 62-67; 1968, cc. 542, 659.