PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor

Ch. 599

3.       Subject to the approval of the Governors of the Commonwealth of Virginia
and the State of Maryland AND THE MAYOR OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA OF THE
PORTIONS OF THE PROJECT IN THEIR RESPECTIVE JURISDICTIONS, and in accordance
with the recommendations of the Woodrow Wilson MEMORIAL Bridge Coordinating
Committee, to determine the location, character, size, and capacity of the project; to
establish, limit, and control such points of ingress to and egress from the project as may
be necessary or desirable in the judgment of the Authority to ensure the proper operation
and maintenance of the project; and to prohibit entrance to such project from any point
or points not so designated;

4.       To secure all necessary federal, state, and local authorizations, permits, and
approvals for the construction, maintenance, repair, and operation of the project;

5.       To adopt and amend bylaws for the regulation of its affairs and the conduct of
its business;

6.       To adopt and amend rules and regulations to carry out the powers granted by
this section;

7.       To acquire, by purchase or condemnation, in the name of the Authority; and
to hold and dispose of real and personal property for the corporate purposes of the
Authority;

8.       [To establish, construct, maintain, repair, and operate the project;

9.] To employ consulting engineers, a superintendent or manager of the project,
and such other engineering, architectural, construction, and accounting experts, and
inspectors, attorneys, and such other employees as may be deemed necessary, and within
the limitations prescribed in this Act, and to prescribe their powers and duties and to fix
their compensation;

[10.] 9. To pay, from any available moneys, the cost of plans, specifications,
surveys, estimates of cost and revenues, legal fees, and other expenses necessary or
incident to determining the feasibility or practicability of financing, constructing,
maintaining, repairing, and operating the project;

[11.] 10. To issue revenue bonds, notes, or other evidence of obligation of the
Authority, for any of its corporate purposes, payable solely from the tolls and revenues
pledged for their payment, and to refund its bonds, all as provided in this Act;

[12.] 11. To fix and revise from time to time and to charge and collect tolls and
other charges for the use of the project;

[13.] 12 To make and enter into all contracts or agreements, as the Authority
may determine, which are necessary or incidental to the performance of its duties and to
the execution of the powers granted under this Act;

[14.] 13. To accept loans and grants of money, or materials or property at any
time from the United States of America, the Commonwealth of Virginia, the State of
Maryland, the District of Columbia, or any agency or instrumentality thereof;

[15.] 14. To adopt an official seal and alter the seal at its pleasure;

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