C.R.S. Section 24-60-601
Compact

The governor of the state of Colorado, for and in behalf of the state of Colorado, is hereby authorized to enter into compacts for western regional cooperation in higher education with the states of Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming or any one or more of said states. Under such compacts, the following covenants may be agreed to:
ARTICLE I
WHEREAS, the future of this Nation and of the Western States is dependent upon the quality of the education of its youth; and
WHEREAS, many of the Western States individually do not have sufficient numbers of potential students to warrant the establishment and maintenance within their borders of adequate facilities in all of the essential fields of technical, professional, and graduate training, nor do all of the States have the financial ability to furnish within their borders institutions capable of providing acceptable standards of training in all of the fields mentioned above; and
WHEREAS, it is believed that the Western States, or groups of such states within the Region, co-operatively can provide acceptable and efficient educational facilities to meet the needs of the Region and of the students thereof;
NOW, THEREFORE, The States of Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming, and the Territories of Alaska and Hawaii do hereby covenant and agree as follows:
ARTICLE II
Each of the compacting states and territories pledges to each of the other compacting states and territories faithful co-operation in carrying out all the purposes of this Compact.
ARTICLE III
The compacting states and territories hereby create the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, hereinafter called the Commission. Said Commission shall be a body corporate of each compacting state and territory and an agency thereof. The Commission shall have all the powers and duties set forth herein, including the power to sue and be sued, and such additional powers as may be conferred upon it by subsequent action of the respective legislatures of the compacting states and territories.
ARTICLE IV
The Commission shall consist of three resident members from each compacting state or territory. At all times one Commissioner from each compacting state or territory shall be an educator engaged in the field of higher education in the state or territory from which he is appointed.
The Commissioners from each state and territory shall be appointed by the Governor thereof as provided by law in such state or territory. Any Commissioner may be removed or suspended from office as provided by the law of the state or territory from which he shall have been appointed.
The terms of each Commissioner shall be four years, provided however that the first three Commissioners shall be appointed as follows: one for two years, one for three years, and one for four years. Each Commissioner shall hold office until his successor shall be appointed and qualified. If any office becomes vacant for any reason, the Governor shall appoint a Commissioner to fill the office for the remainder of the unexpired term.
ARTICLE V
Any business transacted at any meeting of the Commission must be by affirmative vote of a majority of the whole number of compacting states and territories.
One or more Commissioners from a majority of the compacting states and territories shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business.
Each compacting state and territory represented at any meeting of the Commission is entitled to one vote.
ARTICLE VI
The Commission shall elect from its number a chairman and a vice chairman, and may appoint, and at its pleasure dismiss or remove, such officers, agents, and employees as may be required to carry out the purpose of this Compact; and shall fix and determine their duties, qualifications and compensation, having due regard for the importance of the responsibilities involved.
The Commissioners shall serve without compensation, but shall be reimbursed for their actual and necessary expenses from the funds of the Commission.
ARTICLE VII
The Commission shall adopt a seal and by-laws and shall adopt and promulgate rules and regulations for its management and control.
The Commission may elect such committees as it deems necessary for the carrying out of its functions.
The Commission shall establish and maintain an office within one of the compacting states for the transaction of its business and may meet at any time, but in any event must meet at least once a year. The Chairman may call such additional meetings and upon the request of a majority of the Commissioners of three or more compacting states or territories shall call additional meetings.
The Commission shall submit a budget to the Governor of each compacting state and territory at such time and for such period as may be required.
The Commission shall, after negotiations with interested institutions, determine the cost of providing the facilities for graduate and professional education for use in its contractual agreements throughout the Region.
On or before the fifteenth day of January of each year, the Commission shall submit to the Governors and Legislatures of the compacting states and territories a report of its activities for the preceding calendar year.
The Commission shall keep accurate books of account, showing in full its receipts and disbursements, and said books of account shall be open at any reasonable time for inspection by the Governor of any compacting state or territory or his designated representative. The Commission shall not be subject to the audit and accounting procedure of any of the compacting states or territories. The Commission shall provide for an independent annual audit.
ARTICLE VIII
It shall be the duty of the Commission to enter into such contractual agreements with any institutions in the Region offering graduate or professional education and with any of the compacting states or territories as may be required in the judgment of the Commission to provide adequate services and facilities of graduate and professional education for the citizens of the respective compacting states or territories. The Commission shall first endeavor to provide adequate services and facilities in the fields of dentistry, medicine, public health, and veterinary medicine, and may undertake similar activities in other professional and graduate fields.
For this purpose the Commission may enter into contractual agreements --

(a)

With the governing authority of any educational institution in the Region, or with any compacting state or territory, to provide such graduate or professional educational services upon terms and conditions to be agreed upon between contracting parties, and

(b)

With the governing authority of any educational institutions in the Region or with any compacting state or territory to assist in the placement of graduate or professional students in educational institutions in the Region providing the desired services and facilities, upon such terms and conditions as the Commission may prescribe.
It shall be the duty of the Commission to undertake studies of needs for professional and graduate educational facilities in the Region, the resources for meeting such needs, and the long-range effects of the Compact on higher education; and from time to time prepare comprehensive reports on such research for presentation to the Western Governors’ Conference and to the legislatures of the compacting states and territories. In conducting such studies, the Commission may confer with any national or regional planning body which may be established. The Commission shall draft and recommend to the Governors of the various compacting states and territories, uniform legislation dealing with problems of higher education in the Region.
For the purposes of this Compact the word “Region” shall be construed to mean the geographical limits of the several compacting states and territories.
ARTICLE IX
The operating costs of the Commission shall be apportioned equally among the compacting states and territories.
ARTICLE X
This Compact shall become operative and binding immediately as to those states and territories adopting it whenever five or more of the states or territories of Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, Wyoming, Alaska and Hawaii have duly adopted it prior to July 1, 1953. This Compact shall become effective as to any additional states or territories adopting thereafter at the time of such adoption.
ARTICLE XI
This Compact may be terminated at any time by consent of a majority of the compacting states or territories. Consent shall be manifested by passage and signature in the usual manner of legislation expressing such consent by the legislature and Governor of such terminating state. Any state or territory may at any time withdraw from this Compact by means of appropriate legislation to that end. Such withdrawal shall not become effective until two years after written notice thereof by the Governor of the withdrawing state or territory accompanied by a certified copy of the requisite legislative action is received by the Commission. Such withdrawal shall not relieve the withdrawing state or territory from its obligations hereunder accruing prior to the effective date of withdrawal. The withdrawing state or territory may rescind its action of withdrawal at any time within the two year period. Thereafter, the withdrawing state or territory may be reinstated by application to and the approval by a majority vote of the Commission.
ARTICLE XII
If any compacting state or territory shall at any time default in the performance of any of its obligations assumed or imposed in accordance with the provisions of this Compact, all rights, privileges and benefits conferred by this Compact or agreements hereunder, shall be suspended from the effective date of such default as fixed by the Commission.
Unless such default shall be remedied within a period of two years following the effective date of such default, this Compact may be terminated with respect to such defaulting state or territory by affirmative vote of three-fourths of the other member states or territories.
Any such defaulting state may be reinstated by: (a) performing all Acts and obligations upon which it has heretofore defaulted, and (b) application to and the approval by a majority vote of the Commission.

Source: Section 24-60-601 — Compact, https://leg.­colorado.­gov/sites/default/files/images/olls/crs2023-title-24.­pdf (accessed Oct. 20, 2023).

24‑60‑101
Compacts recognized and declared to exist 24‑60‑102
Attorney general commissioner for Colorado 24‑60‑103
Compacts designed to suppress crime and enforce the criminal laws, etc 24‑60‑104
Commissioner to be furnished legal and clerical assistance 24‑60‑105
When commissioner to perform duties 24‑60‑106
Powers of commissioner 24‑60‑107
Compensation - traveling expenses 24‑60‑201
Compact approved and ratified 24‑60‑202
Compact 24‑60‑203
Peace officers enter other states without interference 24‑60‑204
Legal requirements to obtain extradition waived 24‑60‑205
Use of jails for temporary lodging recognized 24‑60‑206
Subpoenas, summons and court orders recognized as valid 24‑60‑207
When person on probation or parole may be permitted to reside in other states 24‑60‑208
Supervision over probationers or parolees 24‑60‑209
Probationers or parolees may be retaken 24‑60‑210
Officer shall transport without interference 24‑60‑211
Attorney generals make rules and regulations 24‑60‑212
Compact operative upon ratification 24‑60‑213
Remain in effect until renounced 24‑60‑401
Authority to enter into compacts 24‑60‑402
Compacts to provide rates 24‑60‑403
Prior compacts ratified 24‑60‑501
Disposal of detainers against prisoner based on untried charges 24‑60‑502
Appropriate court - definitions 24‑60‑503
Enforcement - cooperation 24‑60‑504
Habitual criminals - application of part 5 24‑60‑505
Escapes 24‑60‑506
Surrender of inmates 24‑60‑507
Administration 24‑60‑601
Compact 24‑60‑701
Definitions 24‑60‑702
Execution of compact 24‑60‑703
Administrator 24‑60‑704
Supplementary agreements 24‑60‑705
Financial arrangements 24‑60‑706
Responsibility of parents 24‑60‑707
Fee - counsel or guardian ad litem 24‑60‑708
Enforcement 24‑60‑801
Execution of compact 24‑60‑802
Transfer of inmates 24‑60‑803
Enforcement of compact 24‑60‑804
Hearings 24‑60‑805
Contracts 24‑60‑901
Legislative declaration 24‑60‑902
Compact approved and ratified 24‑60‑903
Approval of compact 24‑60‑904
Commissioner appointed - alternate 24‑60‑905
Retirement benefits 24‑60‑906
Other agencies cooperate 24‑60‑907
State contribution limited 24‑60‑908
Compact effective - when 24‑60‑909
Filing of documents 24‑60‑910
Budget submitted 24‑60‑911
Inspection of accounts 24‑60‑912
Governor executive head 24‑60‑1001
Execution of compact 24‑60‑1002
Compact administrator 24‑60‑1003
Supplementary agreements 24‑60‑1004
Annual budget 24‑60‑1005
Court review 24‑60‑1006
Authenticated copies of compact 24‑60‑1101
Compact approved and ratified 24‑60‑1102
Definition of “licensing authority” 24‑60‑1103
Compact administrator - expenses 24‑60‑1104
Executive head - definition 24‑60‑1105
Offenses - assessment of points 24‑60‑1106
Operator’s license under compact 24‑60‑1107
Review by district court 24‑60‑1201
Execution of compact 24‑60‑1202
State education council created 24‑60‑1203
Commission to file bylaws 24‑60‑1204
Membership on commission 24‑60‑1301
Execution of compact 24‑60‑1302
Article XX of state constitution not modified 24‑60‑1303
Executive director to represent state - alternate 24‑60‑1304
Consulting committee 24‑60‑1305
Advisory committee created 24‑60‑1306
Interstate audits 24‑60‑1307
Effective dates 24‑60‑1308
Applicability of article IV of compact 24‑60‑1401
Compact approved and ratified 24‑60‑1402
Governor to appoint member of the board - alternate 24‑60‑1403
Bylaws to be filed with secretary of state 24‑60‑1404
Workers’ compensation act and related acts - applicability 24‑60‑1501
Compact approved and ratified 24‑60‑1502
Limitations on interstate library districts 24‑60‑1503
State political subdivisions to comply with laws 24‑60‑1504
State library agency 24‑60‑1505
State aid to library district located partly within state 24‑60‑1506
Commissioner of education to administer compact 24‑60‑1507
Withdrawal from compact 24‑60‑1601
Short title 24‑60‑1602
Compact approved and ratified 24‑60‑1603
Administration 24‑60‑1701
Execution of compact 24‑60‑1702
When compact effective 24‑60‑1801
Short title 24‑60‑1802
Execution of compact 24‑60‑1803
Additional provisions and definitions 24‑60‑1901
Ratification of compact 24‑60‑1902
Interstate agency created 24‑60‑1903
Appointment of members of compact commission 24‑60‑1904
Payment of expenses of compact commission 24‑60‑1905
Commissioners exempt from civil liability 24‑60‑1906
Commission - authority to borrow money - authority to accept funds 24‑60‑1907
Railroad loan retirement fund - fees 24‑60‑1908
Loans - tax-exempt 24‑60‑2001
Short title 24‑60‑2002
Execution of compact 24‑60‑2003
Interstate agency created 24‑60‑2004
Members of compact commission 24‑60‑2005
Commissioners exempt from civil liability 24‑60‑2006
Administration 24‑60‑2101
Compact approved and ratified 24‑60‑2102
Licensing authority - definition 24‑60‑2103
Compact administrator - expenses 24‑60‑2104
Jurisdiction executive - definition 24‑60‑2201
Short title 24‑60‑2202
Execution of compact 24‑60‑2203
Legislative declaration 24‑60‑2204
Definitions 24‑60‑2205
Administration - application of other laws 24‑60‑2206
Site recommendation by counties 24‑60‑2207
Statewide assessment of facility sites 24‑60‑2208
State surcharge 24‑60‑2209
Governor to appoint member to compact board 24‑60‑2211
Coordination with other programs and agencies 24‑60‑2212
Regulation of fees 24‑60‑2301
Transfer or exchange of foreign nationals convicted of a crime - authorization by governor 24‑60‑2401
Legislative declaration 24‑60‑2402
Definitions 24‑60‑2403
Compacts authorized 24‑60‑2404
Contents of compact 24‑60‑2405
Rules and regulations 24‑60‑2501
Short title 24‑60‑2502
Execution of agreement 24‑60‑2601
Short title 24‑60‑2602
Execution of compact 24‑60‑2603
Licensing authority - definition 24‑60‑2604
Compact administrator - expenses 24‑60‑2701
Short title 24‑60‑2702
Execution of compact 24‑60‑2801
Short title 24‑60‑2802
Execution of compact 24‑60‑2803
Limitation on assessment 24‑60‑2901
Short title 24‑60‑2902
Compact approved and ratified 24‑60‑3001
Interstate insurance product regulation compact 24‑60‑3101
Legislative declaration 24‑60‑3102
Definitions 24‑60‑3103
Model legislation - compacts authorized 24‑60‑3301
Execution of compact 24‑60‑3401
Legislative declaration 24‑60‑3402
Compact approved and ratified 24‑60‑3501
Short title 24‑60‑3502
Compact approved and ratified 24‑60‑3601
Short title 24‑60‑3602
Compact approved and ratified 24‑60‑3701
Short title 24‑60‑3702
Compact approved and ratified 24‑60‑3801
Short title 24‑60‑3802
Compact approved and ratified 24‑60‑3901
Short title 24‑60‑3902
Compact approved and ratified 24‑60‑3903
Notice to revisor of statutes 24‑60‑4001
Short title 24‑60‑4002
Execution of agreement 24‑60‑4003
Reaffirmation of Colorado law 24‑60‑4004
Conflicting provisions of law 24‑60‑4101
Approved and ratified 24‑60‑4201
Short title 24‑60‑4202
Compact approved and ratified 24‑60‑4203
Construction of terms 24‑60‑4204
Notice to revisor of statutes 24‑60‑4301
Short title 24‑60‑4302
Compact approved and ratified 24‑60‑4303
Construction of terms 24‑60‑4304
Notice to revisor of statutes - effective date of compact 24‑60‑4401
Short title 24‑60‑4402
Compact approved and ratified 24‑60‑4403
Notice to revisor of statutes 24‑60‑4404
Repeal of part
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§ 24-60-601’s source at colorado​.gov