T33CH36

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33-3601

TITLE 33 EDUCATION CHAPTER 36 COMPACT FOR COOPERATION IN HIGHER EDUCATION 33-3601. Interstate compact for Western Regional Cooperation in Higher Education ratified. The State of Idaho does hereby ratify, approve, adopt and confirm the Interstate Compact for Western Regional Cooperation in Higher Education heretofore entered into between the States of Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, Wyoming, Alaska and Hawaii. The compact is, in words and figures as follows, except that any reference to the Territories of Alaska and Hawaii means the States of Alaska and Hawaii: 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, cooperatively 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 cooperation 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

33-3602

TITLE 33 EDUCATION CHAPTER 36 COMPACT FOR COOPERATION IN HIGHER EDUCATION 33-3602. Operative date of compact. The foregoing compact shall as to the state of Idaho become operative, and shall be in full force and effect in accordance with the provisions of Article X thereof, upon the passage and approval of this act, and the Governor shall thereafter execute the Compact by and on behalf of this state in accordance with the terms thereof. History: [(33-3602) 1953, ch. 248, sec. 2, p. 391.]

33-3603

TITLE 33 EDUCATION CHAPTER 36 COMPACT FOR COOPERATION IN HIGHER EDUCATION 33-3603. Appointment of Idaho members of commission. (a) The Governor shall thereupon appoint the Idaho members of the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education. (b) The qualifications and terms of office of the members of the Commission for this state shall conform with the provisions of Article IV of the Compact as it appears in section 33-3601 . (c) The Governor may remove a member of the Commission for cause after notice and public hearing. History: [(33-3603) 1953, ch. 248, sec. 3, p. 391.]

33-3604

TITLE 33 EDUCATION CHAPTER 36 COMPACT FOR COOPERATION IN HIGHER EDUCATION 33-3604. Determination of cost per student — Repayment — Cancellation of debt when practicing profession. The Idaho members of the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education shall annually determine the cost to the state of Idaho of each student attending any out of state institution under the provisions of this chapter. Each student attending any institution under the provisions of this act shall, by the acceptance of the benefits of this act, become obligated to the state of Idaho for the cost to the state of Idaho for such student, as determined by the Idaho members of the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education. Such sum or sums, together with interest thereon at the rate of five per cent (5%) per annum from the time of the expenditure by the state of Idaho shall be repaid as follows: one-fourth (1/4) of said sum, together with accrued interest on or before three (3) years from the date such student completes or terminates his education and/or internship and one-fourth (1/4) of such sum with accrued interest on the same date annually thereafter until said sum, together with accrued interest shall have been fully paid. In case any student shall fail to make payment in accordance with the provisions of this section, the total unpaid balance shall become immediately due and payable and shall be recovered by suit brought by the attorney-general on behalf of the state of Idaho; Provided, however, that any student who shall, within three (3) years of completion of his education, engage in the practice of his profession continuously for the period of two (2) years in the state of Idaho, shall not be obligated to repay the cost of his education or any part thereof. History: [(33-3604) I.C., sec. 33-4004, as added by 1963, ch. 274, sec. 1, p. 708.]