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80 STAT. 737

SEC. 207. In order to provide the basis for evaluating the continu- Estimate of ing programs authorized by this Act, and to furnish the Congress with cost. the information necessary for authorization of appropriations for fiscal years beginning after June 30, 1969, the Secretary, in cooperation with the Governors or the appropriate State highway safety agencies, shall make a detailed estimate of the cost of carrying out the provisions of this Act. The Secretary shall submit such detailed estimate and recommendations for Federal, State, and local matching funds to the Congress not later than January 10, 1968.

SEC. 208. This Act may be cited as the "Highway Safety Act of Short title. 1966".

Approved September 9, 1966, 1:11 p.m.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

HOUSE REPORTS: No. 1700 accompanying H. R. 13290 (Comm. on

Public Works) and No. 1920 (Comm. of Conference).

SENATE REPORT No. 1302 (Comm. on Public Works).

CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 112 (1966):

June 24: Considered and passed Senate.

June 27:

Aug. 18:

Reconsidered and passed Senate.

Considered and passed House, amended, in lieu of
H. R. 13290.

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89th Congress, S. 3051
September 21, 1966

An Act

Granting the consent of Congress to the compact between Missouri and Kansas creating the Kansas City Area Transportation District and the Kansas City Area Transportation Authority.

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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, subject to the Missouriprovisions of section 2 of this Act, the Congress consents to the Kansas intercompact between the States of Missouri and Kansas which reads as state compact. follows:

"COMPACT BETWEEN MISSOURI AND KANSAS CREAT

ING THE KANSAS CITY AREA TRANSPORTATION DIS-
TRICT AND THE KANSAS CITY AREA TRANSPORTA-
TION AUTHORITY.

"The States of Missouri and Kansas solemnly agree:

"ARTICLE I.

"They agree to and pledge, each to the other, faithful cooperation in the future planning and development of the Kansas City Area Transportation District, holding in high trust for the benefit of its people and of the Nation, the special blessings and natural advantages thereof.

"ARTICLE II.

"To that end, the two States create a district to be known as the Kansas City Area Transportation District (hereinafter referred to as 'The District'), which shall embrace the following territory: The Counties of Cass, Clay, Jackson and Platte in Missouri, and the Counties of Johnson, Leavenworth and Wyandotte in Kansas.

"ARTICLE III.

"There is created the Kansas City Area Transportation Authority of the Kansas City Area Transportation District (hereinafter referred to as the 'Authority'), which shall be a body corporate and politic and a political subdivision of the States of Missouri and Kansas.

"The Authority shall have the following powers:

"(1) To acquire by gift, purchase or lease and to plan, construct, operate and maintain, or to lease to others for operation and maintenance, passenger transportation systems and facilities, either upon, above or below the ground.

"(2) To charge and collect fees and rents for use of the facilities owned or operated by it.

"(3) To contract and to be contracted with, and to sue and to be sued.

"(4) To receive for its lawful activities any contributions or moneys appropriated by municipalities, counties, or by the Federal Government or any agency or officer thereof or from any other

source.

"(5) To disburse funds for its lawful activities and fix salaries and wages of its officers and employees.

"(6) To borrow money for the acquisition, planning, construction, equipping, operation, maintenance, repair, extension, and improvement of any facility which it has the power to own or

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to operate or to own and to operate, and to issue the negotiable notes, bonds or other instruments in writing of the Authority in evidence of the sum or sums to be borrowed.

"(7) To issue negotiable refunding notes, bonds or other instruments in writing for the purpose of refunding, extending or unifying the whole or any part of its valid indebtedness from time to time outstanding, whether evidenced by notes, bonds, or other instruments in writing, which refunding notes, bonds or other instruments in writing shall not exceed in amount the principal of the outstanding indebtedness to be refunded and the accrued interest thereon to the date of such refunding.

"(8) To provide that all negotiable notes, bonds and other instruments in writing issued either pursuant to subdivision (6) or pursuant to subdivision (7) hereof shall be payable, both as to principal and interest, out of the revenues collected for the use of any facility or combination of facilities owned or operated or owned and operated by the Authority, or out of any other resources of the Authority, and may be further secured by a mortgage or deed of trust upon any property owned by the Authority. All notes, bonds or other instruments in writing issued by the Authority as herein provided shall mature in not to exceed thirty years from the date thereof, shall bear interest at a rate not exceeding six percent per annum, and shall be sold for not less than ninety-five per cent of the par value thereof. The Authority shall have the power to prescribe the details of such notes, bonds or other instruments in writing, and of the issuance and sale thereof, and shall have the power to enter into covenants with the holders of such notes, bonds or other instruments in writing, not inconsistent with the powers herein granted to the Authority, without further legislative authority.

"(9) To condemn any and all rights or property, of any kind or character, necessary for the purposes of the Authority, subject, however, to the provisions of this compact: Provided, however, That no property now or hereafter vested in or held by either State or by any county, city, village, township or other political subdivision, shall be taken by the Authority without the authority or consent of such state, county, city, village, township or other political subdivision. If the property to be condemned be situated in the State of Kansas, the said Authority shall follow the procedure of the Act of the State of Kansas providing for the exercise of the right of eminent domain, and if the property to be condemned be situated in the State of Missouri, the said Authority shall follow the procedure provided by the laws of the State of Missouri for the appropriation of land or other property taken for telegraph, telephone or railroad right of ways.

"(10) To petition any interstate commerce commission (or like body), public service commission, public utilities commission (or like body), or any other Federal, municipal, state or local authority, administrative, judicial or legislative, having jurisdiction in the premises, for the adoption of plans for and execution of any physical improvements, change in methods, rate of transportation, which, in the opinion of the Authority, may be designed to improve or better the handling of commerce in and through the District, or improve terminal and transportation facilities therein. It may intervene in any proceeding affecting the commerce of the District.

"(11) To perform all other necessary and incidental functions; and to exercise such additional powers as shall be conferred on it by the Legislature of either State concurred in by the Legislature of the other and by Act of Congress.

"ARTICLE IV.

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"Nothing contained in this compact shall impair the powers of any county, municipality or other political subdivision to acquire, own, operate, develop or improve any facility which the Authority is given the right and power to own, operate, develop or improve.

"Nothing herein shall impair or invalidate in any way bonded indebtedness of either State or of any county, city, village, township or other political subdivision, nor impair the provisions of law regulating the payment into sinking funds of revenues derived from municipal property or dedicating the revenues derived from any municipal property to a specific purpose.

"Unless and until otherwise provided, the Authority shall make an annual report to the Governor of each State, setting forth in detail the operations and transactions conducted by it pursuant to this compact and any legislation thereunder.

"ARTICLE V.

"The Authority shall consist of ten Commissioners, five of whom shall be resident voters of the State of Missouri and five of whom shall be resident voters of the State of Kansas. All Commissioners shall reside within the District, the Missouri members to be chosen by the State of Missouri and the Kansas members by the State of Kansas, in the manner and for the terms fixed by the Legislature of each State except as herein provided.

"ARTICLE VI.

"The Authority shall elect from its number a chairman, a vicechairman, and may appoint such officers and employees as it may require for the performance of its duties, and shall fix and determine their qualifications and duties.

"Until otherwise determined by the Legislature of the two States, no action of the Authority shall be binding unless taken at a meeting at which at least three members from each State are present, and unless a majority of the members from each State, present at such meeting, shall vote in favor thereof.

"The two States shall provide penalties for violations of any order, rule or regulation of the Authority, and for the manner of enforcing

same.

"ARTICLE VII.

"The Authority is authorized and directed to proceed to carry out its duties, functions and powers in accordance with the articles of this compact as rapidly as may be economically practicable and is vested with all necessary and appropriate powers not inconsistent with the Constitution or the Laws of the United States or of either State, to effectuate the same, except the power to levy taxes or assessments. "IN WITNESS THEREOF, we have hereunder set our hands and seals under authority vested in us by law this twenty-eighth day of December, 1965.

"In the Presence of:

"(Signed).

"(Signed)."

SEC. 2. (a) Any obligations issued and outstanding including the income derived therefrom, under the terms of the compact consented to in this Act, and any amendments thereto, shall be subject to the tax laws of the United States.

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(b) Nothing in such compact shall be construed to affect, impair, or diminish any right, power, or jurisdiction of the United States or of any court, department, board, bureau, officer or official of the United States, in, over, or in regard to the territory which is embraced in the Kansas City Area Transportation District, as defined in such compact, or any navigable waters, or any commerce between the States or with foreign countries, or any bridge, railroad, highway, pier, wharf, or other facility or improvement, or any other person, matter, or thing, forming the subject matter of such compact, or otherwise affected by the terms thereof, with the exception that the Kansas City Area Transportation Authority, as established in such compact, its affiliates and the transportation rendered by either, within such Kansas City Area Transportation District shall be exempt from the applicability of the provisions of the Interstate Commerce Act, as amended, and the rules, regulations, and orders promulgated thereunder, but such exception shall not affect the power or authority of the Interstate Commerce Commission to regulate and apply the provisions of the Interstate Commerce Act, as amended, to other persons engaged in the transportation of passengers or property in interstate or foreign commerce within such Kansas City Area Transportation District or the transportation rendered by such other persons.

(c) No additional power or powers shall be exercised by such Kansas City Area Transportation Authority under part (11) of article III of such compact unless and until such power or powers are conferred upon such Authority by the legislature of one of the States participating in the compact, agreed to by the legislature of the other participating State, and consented to by the Congress of the United States.

(d) Congress or any committee thereof shall have the right to require the disclosure and furnishing of such information by the Authority as they may deem appropriate and shall have access to all books, records, and papers of the Authority.

(e) The consent of Congress to this compact is granted subject to the further condition that the Kansas City Area Transportation District and the Kansas City Area Transportation Authority shall not acquire, construct, maintain, operate, or lease to others for maintenance and operation any interstate toll bridge or interstate toll tunnel without prior approval of the Secretary of Commerce.

(f) The right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved.

Approved September 21, 1966.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

HOUSE REPORT No. 1901 (Comm. on the Judiciary).
SENATE REPORT No. 1398 (Comm. on the Judiciary).
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 112 (1966):

July 25: Considered and passed Senate.

Sept. 6: Considered and passed House, amended.
Sept. 9: Senate concurred in House amendment.

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