Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 103 Part 2.djvu/322

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103 STAT. 1332 PUBLIC LAW 101-183—NOV. 28, 1989 operate to limit such riparian owner's rights to accretions across such compromise boundary. (b) No private individual or entity claiming title to lands along the Missouri River, over which sovereignty is relinquished by this com- pact, shall be prejudiced by the relinquishment of such sovereignty and any claims or possessory rights necessary to establish adverse possession shall not be terminated or limited by the fact that the jurisdiction over such lands may have been transferred by the compact. Neither state will assert any claim of title to abandoned beds of the Missouri River, lands along the Missouri River, or the bed of the Missouri River based upon any doctrine of state owner- ship of the beds or abandoned beds of navigable waters, as against any land owners or claimants claiming interest in real estate arising out of titles, muniments of title, or exercises of jurisdiction of or from the other state, which titles or muniments of title commenced prior to the effective date of this compact. ARTICLE VIII. Readjustment of Boundary by Negotiation If at any time after the effective date of this compact, the Missouri River shall move or be moved by natural means or otherwise so that the flow thereof at any point along the course forming the boundary between the states occurs entirely within one of the states, each state at the request of the other, agrees to enter into and conduct negotiations in good faith for the purpose of readjusting the bound- ary at the place or places where such movement occurred consistent with the intent, policy and purpose hereof that the boundary will be placed within the Missouri River. ARTICLE IX. Effective Date (a) This compact shall become effective when ratified by the legislature of the state of Nebraska and the legislature of the state of South Dakota and approved by the Congress of the United States. (b) As of the effective date of this compact, the state of Nebraska and the state of South Dakota shall relinquish sovereignty over the lands described herein and shall assume and accept sovereignty over such lands ceded to them as herein provided. (c) In the event this compact is not approved by the legislature of each state on or before July, 1990, and approved by the Congress of the United States within three years from the date hereof, this compact shall be inoperative and for all purposes shall be void.