N.Y. Executive Law § 29-l: International Emergency Management Assistance Compact

§ 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.