PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor                             Ch. 489

subject to the provisions of [§] SECTION 20 hereof, to provide transit facilities and
service in consideration for the undertaking by the District of Columbia to contribute to
the capital required for the construction and/or acquisition of facilities specified in a mass
transit plan adopted as provided in Article VI, or in any alteration, revision or
amendment thereof, and for meeting expenses and obligations incurred in the operation
of such facilities.

Article XVI

81.

The United States District Courts shall have original jurisdiction, concurrent with
the courts of Maryland [and], Virginia AND THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, of all actions
brought by or against the Authority and to enforce subpoenas issued under this [title]
TITLE. Any such action initiated in a [ state] STATE OR DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA court
shall be removable to the appropriate United States District Court in the manner
provided by Act of June 25, 1948, as amended (28 U.S.C. 1446).

84.

Amendments and supplements to this [title] TITLE to implement the purposes
thereof may be adopted by legislative action of any of the signatory parties concurred in
by all of the others. WHEN ONE SIGNATORY ADOPTS AN AMENDMENT OR
SUPPLEMENT TO AN EXISTING SECTION OF THE COMPACT, THAT AMENDMENT OR
SUPPLEMENT SHALL NOT BE IMMEDIATELY EFFECTIVE, AND THE PREVIOUSLY
ENACTED PROVISION OR PROVISIONS SHALL REMAIN IN EFFECT IN EACH
JURISDICTION UNTIL THE AMENDMENT OR SUPPLEMENT IS APPROVED BY THE
OTHER SIGNATORIES AND IS CONSENTED TO BY CONGRESS.

86.

This [title] TITLE shall be adopted by the [signatories] SIGNATORIES in the
manner provided by law therefor and shall be signed and sealed in four duplicate original
copies. One such copy shall be filed with the Secretary of State of each of the [signatory]
SIGNATORY parties or in accordance with the laws of the [State] STATE in which the
filing is made, and one copy shall be filed and retained in the archives of the AUTHORITY
upon its organization. This [title] TITLE shall become effective ninety days after the
enactment of concurring legislation by or on behalf of the District of Columbia, Maryland
and Virginia and consent thereto by the Congress and all other acts or actions have been
taken, including the signing and execution of the [title] TITLE by the Governors of
Maryland and Virginia and the [Commissioners] MAYOR AND COUNCIL of the District
of Columbia.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act may not take
effect until similar Acts are passed by the District of Columbia and the Commonwealth of
Virginia; that the District of Columbia and the Commonwealth of Virginia are requested
to concur in this Act of the General Assembly by the passage of substantially similar Acts;
that the Department of Legislative Reference shall notify the appropriate officials of the
District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Virginia, and the United States Congress of
the passage of this Act; and that, upon the concurrence in this Act by the District of
Columbia, the Commonwealth of Virginia, and the United States, the Governor of the

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