PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor

Ch. 494

EXAMINATION AND INSPECTION BY DULY AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVES OF THE
GOVERNING BODIES OF MARYLAND, AND VIRGINIA, AND THE DISTRICT OF
COLUMBIA AND OF THE POLITICAL SUBDIVISIONS CONSTITUTING THE AUTHORITY
AND BY ANY BONDHOLDER OR BONDHOLDERS AT ANY REASONABLE TIME,
PROVIDED THE BUSINESS OF THE AUTHORITY IS NOT UNDULY INTERRUPTED OR
INTERFERED WITH THEREBY.

ANY MEMBER, AGENT, OR EMPLOYEE OF THE AUTHORITY WHO CONTRACTS
WITH THE AUTHORITY OR IS INTERESTED, EITHER DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, IN
ANY CONTRACT WITH THE AUTHORITY OR IN THE SALE OF ANY PROPERTY, EITHER
REAL OR PERSONAL, TO THE AUTHORITY SHALL BE GUILTY OF A MISDEMEANOR,
AND, UPON CONVICTION SHALL BE PUNISHED BY A FINE OF NOT MORE THAN $1,000
OR BY IMPRISONMENT FOR NOT MORE THAN ONE YEAR, OR BOTH.

ANY PERSON WHO USES THE PROJECT AND FAILS OR REFUSES TO PAY THE
TOLL PROVIDED THEREFOR SHALL BE GUILTY OF A MISDEMEANOR, AND, UPON
CONVICTION SHALL BE PUNISHED BY A FINE OF NOT MORE THAN $100 OR BY
IMPRISONMENT FOR NOT MORE THAN THIRTY DAYS, OR BOTH, AND IN ADDITION
THERETO THE AUTHORITY SHALL HAVE A LIEN UPON THE VEHICLE DRIVEN BY
SUCH PERSON FOR THE AMOUNT OF SUCH TOLL AND MAY TAKE AND RETAIN
POSSESSION THEREOF UNTIL THE AMOUNT OF SUCH TOLL AND ALL CHARGES IN
CONNECTION THEREWITH SHALL HAVE BEEN PAID.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That Section 1 of this Act may
not take effect until similar acts are passed by: (1) the Commonwealth of Virginia and the
District of Columbia has passed an act in substance the same as this Act, and (2) the
Commonwealth of Virginia, the State of Maryland, and the United States Department of
Transportation have entered into an agreement including provisions governing the
transfer of the existing bridge from the federal government to the Authority, which
agreement shall provide for a contractual commitment of the federal government to
provide set less than at least a majority of federal funding, with a target of 90% of the
project costs toward the cost of improvements to the existing Woodrow Wilson Bridge
and/or the construction of a new Woodrow Wilson Bridge or tunnel, or both a bridge and
tunnel, and further providing that such federal funds shall be in addition to and shall not
diminish the federal transportation funding allocated or apportioned to the
Commonwealth of Virginia and the State of Maryland: that the Commonwealth of
Virginia and the District of Columbia are is requested to concur in this Act of the
General Assembly of Maryland by the passage of a similar act; that the Department of
Legislative Reference shall notify the appropriate officials of the Commonwealth of
Virginia, the District of Columbia, and the United States Congress of the passage of this
Act; and that upon concurrence in this Act by the Commonwealth of Virginia and the
District of Columbia the approval of the agreement described under (2) in the first
sentence of Section 2 above, the Governor of the State of Maryland shall issue a
proclamation declaring this Act valid and effective and shall forward a copy of the
proclamation to the Director of the Department of Legislative Reference.

SECTION 3. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That the Maryland Department
of Transportation and the Maryland Transportation Authority, working cooperatively
with the Woodrow Wilson Bridge Coordinating Committee and interested parties, shall

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