Ch. 489                                    1996 LAWS OF MARYLAND

CHAPTER 489
(House Bill 712)

AN ACT concerning

Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority - Jurisdiction, Appointments, and

Procedures

PG/MC 12-96

FOR the purpose of expanding the jurisdictions included in the Washington Metropolitan
Area Transit Zone; altering the appointment process of the District of Columbia for
members of the Board of Directors of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit
Authority (WMATA); altering the procedural requirements for the Board to act;
making stylistic changes; repealing a requirement for congressional approval for the
District of Columbia to create obligations in order to commit to the Authority by
contract or agreement; clarifying the jurisdiction of the courts of the District of
Columbia in actions involving the Authority; establishing the effectiveness of
provisions of the Compact under certain conditions; providing for a certain
contingency; and generally relating to the jurisdiction and activities of the WMATA.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Transportation

Section 10-204 Title III Article III Section 3, 5(a), and 8(a), Article VI Section
14(b) and 15, Article VII Section 18(c), and Article XVI Section 81, 84, and
86

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1993 Replacement Volume and 1995 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

Article - Transportation

10-204.

Title III
Article III

3.                                                                                                                                  

There is hereby created the Washington [metropolitan area transit zone,]
METROPOLITAN AREA TRANSIT ZONE which shall embrace the District of Columbia,
the cities of Alexandria, Falls Church and Fairfax, and the counties of Arlington [and],
Fairfax, AND LOUDOUN and political subdivisions of the Commonwealth of Virginia
located within those counties, and the counties of Montgomery and Prince George's in
the State of Maryland and political subdivisions of the State of Maryland located in said
counties.

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