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Colorado River Crime Enforcement Compact
Formation date: 1987
Member jurisdictions: 2
Issue(s): Law enforcement
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The Colorado River Crime Enforcement Compact is an interstate compact between Arizona and California. It grants concurrent jurisdiction for courts and law enforcement officers for crimes committed on the Colorado River.[1][2]

Text of the compact

The legislature of each member state passes the laws with certain modifications, but the core of the legislation remains the same.

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The interstate compact for jurisdiction on the Colorado river is enacted into law as follows:
COLORADO RIVER CRIME ENFORCEMENT COMPACT
SECTION I. CONCURRENT JURISDICTION
A. If conduct is prohibited by two adjoining party states, courts and law enforcement officers in either state who have jurisdiction over criminal offenses committed in a county where the Colorado river forms a common interstate boundary have concurrent jurisdiction to arrest, prosecute and try offenders for the prohibited conduct that is committed anywhere on the boundary water between the two states and concurrent jurisdiction to arrest offenders for prohibited conduct that is committed on any land mass within twenty-five air miles of the Colorado river or within twenty-five air miles of any lake that is formed by or is a part of the Colorado river.
B. This compact does not authorize:
1. Prosecution of any person for conduct which is lawful in the state where it was committed.
2. Any conduct prohibited by any party state.
SECTION II. RATIFICATION
This compact is ratified by enactment of the language of this compact, or substantially similar language expressing the same purpose, by at least two states of which the Colorado river forms a common boundary.[3][4]

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Council of State Governments, "Public safety brief: Interstate agreements for law enforcement and concurrent jurisdiction," Page 2, accessed July 27, 2011
  2. ↑ National Center for Interstate Compacts, "Colorado River Crime Enforcement Compact," accessed January 26, 2016
  3. ↑ National Center for Interstate Compacts, "Colorado River Crime Enforcement Compact," accessed February 18, 2021
  4. ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
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