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ninety (90) days after its adoption by the signatories and consent
thereto by the Congress of the United States, including the enactment
by the Congress of such legislation, if any, as it may deem necessary
to grant this Commission jurisdiction over transportation in the
District of Columbia and between the signatories and over the persons
engaged therein, to suspend the applicability of the Interstate Com-
merce Act, the laws of the District of Columbia, and any other laws
of the United States, to the persons, companies and activities which
are subject to this sub-title, to the extent that such laws are incon-
sistent with, or in duplication of, the jurisdiction of the Commission
or any provision of this sub-title, or any rule, regulation or order
lawfully prescribed or issued under this sub-title, and to make effec-
tive the enforcement and review provisions of this sub-title.

ARTICLE IX

278.   This compact may be amended from time to time without the
prior consent or approval of the Congress and any such amendment
shall be effective unless, within one year thereof, the Congress dis-
approves such an amendment. No amendment shall be effective un-
less adopted by each of the signatories hereto.

279.   Any signatory may withdraw from the compact upon one
year's written notice to that effect to the other signatories. In the
event of a withdrawal of one of the signatories from the compact, the
compact shall be terminated.

280.   Upon the termination of this compact, the jurisdiction over
the matters and persons covered by this sub-title shall revert to the
signatories and the Federal Government, as their interests may ap-
pear, and the applicable laws of the signatories and the Federal Gov-
ernment shall be reactivated without further legislation.

ARTICLE X

281.  Each of the signatories pledges to each of the other signatory
parties faithful cooperation in the solution and control of transit and
traffic problems within the Metropolitan District and, in order to
effect such purposes, agrees to enact any necessary legislation to
achieve the objectives of the compact to the mutual benefit of the
citizens living within said Metropolitan District and for the advance-
ment of the interests of the signatories hereto.

ARTICLE XI

282.   If any part or provision of this compact or the application
thereof to any person or circumstances be adjudged invalid by any
court of competent jurisdiction, such judgment shall be confined in
its operation to the part, provision or application directly involved in
the controversy in which such judgment shall have been rendered and
shall not affect or impair the validity of the remainder of this com-
pact or the application thereof to other persons or circumstances and
the signatories hereby declare that they would have entered into this
compact or the remainder thereof had the invalidity of such pro-
vision or application thereof been apparent.

283.  In accordance with the ordinary rules for construction of in-
terstate compacts, this compact shall be liberally construed to elim-
inate the evils described therein and to effectuate the purposes thereof.