§ 2-13-6 Powers of commission. –
There is granted to the commission and the commissioners all powers provided
for in the compact and all the powers necessary or incidental to the carrying
out of the compact. All officers of the state of Rhode Island are authorized
and directed to do all things necessary or incidental to the carrying out of
the compact and it being declared to be the policy of the state of Rhode Island
to perform and carry out the compact and to accomplish the purposes of the
compact and to execute a compact on behalf of the state of Rhode Island with
any one or more of the states of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New
Hampshire, New York and Vermont and with any other states of the United States
or provinces of the dominion of Canada as may legally join in the compact.
(P.L. 1950, ch. 2430, § 4; G.L. 1956, § 2-13-6.)