RSA 430:21 Compact Enacted.
Title: XL - AGRICULTURE, HORTICULTURE AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY
Chapter: 430 - INSECT PESTS AND PLANT DISEASES
The Pest Control Compact is hereby enacted into law and entered into with all other jurisdictions legally joining therein in the form substantially as follows:
Article I
Findings
The party states find that:
(a)In the absence of the higher degree of cooperation among them possible under this compact, the annual loss of approximately 7 billion dollars from the depredations of pests is virtually certain to continue, if not to increase.
(b)Because of varying climatic, geographic and economic factors, each state may be affected differently by particular species of pests; but all states share the inability to protect themselves fully against those pests which present serious dangers to them.
(c)The migratory character of pest infestations makes