4.__Enforce compact, rules and bylaws.__To enforce compliance with compact provisions and interstate commission rules and bylaws, using all necessary and proper means, including, but not limited to, the use of judicial process;

5.__Establish and maintain offices.__To establish and maintain offices;

6.__Purchase and maintain insurance and bonds.__To purchase and maintain insurance and bonds;

7.__Provide personnel services.__To borrow, accept or contract for services of personnel, including, but not limited to, members and the members' staffs;

8.__Establish and appoint committees; hire staff.__To establish and appoint committees and hire staff that it considers necessary for carrying out its functions, including, but not limited to, an executive committee as required by section 9873 that has the power to act on behalf of the interstate commission in carrying out its powers and duties;

9.__Elect or appoint officers, attorneys, employees, agents or consultants; establish personnel policies.__To elect or appoint officers, attorneys, employees, agents or consultants; to fix their compensation, define their duties and determine their qualifications; and to establish the interstate commission's personnel policies and programs relating to, among other things, conflicts of interest, rates of compensation and qualifications of personnel;

10.__Accept donations.__To accept donations and grants of money, equipment, supplies, materials and services, and to receive, utilize and dispose of those donations and grants;

11.__Hold property.__To lease, purchase, accept contributions or donations of or otherwise to own, hold, improve or use any property, real, personal or mixed;

12.__Sell property.__To sell, convey, mortgage, pledge, lease, exchange, abandon or otherwise dispose of any property, real, personal or mixed;

13.__Establish budget. To establish a budget, make expenditures and levy assessments as provided in section 9880;

14.__Sue and be sued.__To sue and be sued;