Revision: March 18, 2011, midnight
HCR 15 – AS INTRODUCED
2011 SESSION
01/03
HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 15
A RESOLUTION ordering our federal senators to vote against the Law of the Sea Convention.
SPONSORS: Rep. Itse, Rock 9; Rep. Hoell, Merr 13; Rep. C. Vita, Straf 3; Rep. L. Vita, Straf 3; Rep. Comerford, Rock 9
COMMITTEE: State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs
The house concurrent resolution orders our federal senators to vote against the Law of the Sea Convention.
11-0394
01/03
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Eleven
A RESOLUTION ordering our federal senators to vote against the Law of the Sea Convention.
Whereas, the government of the United States of America currently has territorial jurisdiction over the waters extending 12 miles from the coastal territories of its member States; and
Whereas, the government of the United States of America currently has an exclusive economic zone extending 200 miles from the coastal territories of its member States; and
Whereas, the government of the United States of America currently claims a continental shelf extending 200 miles from the coastal territories of its member States; and
Whereas, the Law of the Sea Convention also known as the Law of the Treaty adds no sovereign jurisdictions to the United States of America; and
Whereas, the Law of the Sea Convention will empower the United Nations to levy fees upon a Corporation formed under the jurisdiction of the United States of America or its member States to mine the sea bed under the territorial seas and continental shelf; and
Whereas, the Law of the Sea Convention would give jurisdiction over all non-territorial waters, the sea bed beneath them and the air above them, to the United Nations; and
Whereas, the State of New Hampshire is a member of the United States of America with coastal waters; and
Whereas, the State of New Hampshire is represented in the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate in the Congress of the United States by Senator Shaheen and Senator Ayotte; now, therefore, be it
Resolved by the House of Representatives, the Senate concurring:
That the general court of the state of New Hampshire orders Senator Shaheen and Senator Ayotte representing New Hampshire in the United States Senate in the Congress of the United States to vote against ratification of the Law of the Sea Convention; and
That the house clerk transmit copies of this resolution to Senator Shaheen and Senator Ayotte.