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PUBLIC LAW 86-794-SEPT. 15, 1960

[74 S T A T.

SEC. 2. The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized and directed to enter into and execute on behalf of the United States for the District of Columbia a compact substantially as set forth above with the States of Virginia and Maryland and are further authorized and directed to carry out and effectuate the terms and provisions of said compact, and there are hereby authorized to be approSriated such funds as are necessary to carry out the obligations of the )istrict of Columbia in accordance with the terms of the said compact: Provided, That the said Commissioners shall not adopt any amendment to the said compact for the District of Columbia under the provisions of section 1 of article IX of the compact unless the said amendment has had the consent or approval of the Congress. SEC. 3. That, upon the effective date of the compact and so long thereafter as the compact remains effective, the applicability of the laws of the United States, and the rules^ regulations, and orders promulgated thereunder, relating to or affecting transportation under the compact and to the persons engaged therein, including those provisions of section 6(e) of the District of Columbia Traffic Act, 1925, as amended by the Act approved February 27, 1931 (46 Stat. 1426; Sec. 40-603 (e), D.C. Code, 1951 edition), relating to the powers of the Public Utilities Commission of the District of Columbia and the Joint Board created under such section, is suspended, except as otherwise specified in the compact, to the extent that such laws, rules, regulations, and orders are inconsistent with or in duplication of the provisions of the compact: Provided, That upon the termination of the compact, the suspension of such laws, rules, regulations, and orders, if not theretofore repealed, shall terminate and such laws, rules, regulations, and orders shall thereupon again become applicable and legallj?^ effective without further legislative or administrative action: Provided further. That nothing in this Act or in the compact shall affect the normal and ordinary police powers of the signatories and of the political subdivisions thereof and of the Director of the National Park Service with respect to the regulation of vehicles, control of traffic and use of streets, highways, and other vehicular facilities: Provided further, That nothing in this Act or in the compact consented to and approved hereby shall impair or affect the rights, duties, and obligations created by the Act of 3vlj 24, 1956 (ch. 669, 70 Stat. 598), w a n t i n g a franchise to D.C. Transit System, Inc.: Provided /wrAer, That the term "public interest" as used in section 12(b) of article X II, title 11 of the Compact shall be deemed to include, among other things, the interest of the carrier employees affected: Arid provided fwrtker^ That nothing herein shall be deemed to render inapplicable any laws of the United States providing benefits for the employees of any carrier subject to this compact or relating to the wages, hours, and working conditions of employees of any carrier, or to collective bargaining between the carriers and said employees, or to the rights to self-organization, including, but sta/. Ifoeb. "*' '^ ^^*' limited to» the Labor-Management Relations Act, 1947, as amended, 29 USC 141,201. and the F a i r Labor Standards Act, as amended. Notwithstanding any provision of this section to the contrary, the jurisdiction of the I^iblic Utilities Commission of the District of Columbia and of the Interstate Commerce Commission over all carriers and persons subject to the provisions of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Regulation Compact are hereby transferred, as and to the extent provided therein, to the "Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Commission. strike a. gj,^, ^ rj,j^^ conseiit and approval of Congress set forth in the first section of this Act is given on the express condition that sections 4(d)(3) and 12(d) of article X II of such compact shall not be used to break a lawful strike by the employees of any carrier authorized to provide service pursuant to such compact.

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