{"identifier":"/us/usc/t49/s49102","title":49,"num":"\u00a7\u202f49102.","heading":"Purpose","text":"\u00a7\u202f49102.\nPurpose\n(a)\nGeneral.\u2014\nThe purpose of this chapter is to authorize the transfer of operating responsibility under long-term lease of the 2 Metropolitan Washington Airport properties as a unit, including access highways and other related facilities, to a properly constituted independent airport authority created by Virginia and the District of Columbia, in order to achieve local control, management, operation, and development of these important transportation assets.\n(b)\nInclusion of Baltimore/Washington International Airport Not Precluded.\u2014\nThis chapter does not prohibit the Airports Authority and Maryland from making an agreement to make Baltimore/Washington International Airport part of a regional airports authority, subject to terms agreed to by the Airports Authority, the Secretary of Transportation, Virginia, the District of Columbia, and Maryland.","url":"https://projectusc.org/usc/t49/s49102.html","content":[{"t":"sec","id":"/us/usc/t49/s49102","children":[{"t":"num","text":"\u00a7\u202f49102."},{"t":"heading","text":"Purpose"},{"t":"subsec","id":"/us/usc/t49/s49102/a","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(a)"},{"t":"heading","text":"General.\u2014"},{"t":"content","text":"The purpose of this chapter is to authorize the transfer of operating responsibility under long-term lease of the 2 Metropolitan Washington Airport properties as a unit, including access highways and other related facilities, to a properly constituted independent airport authority created by Virginia and the District of Columbia, in order to achieve local control, management, operation, and development of these important transportation assets.","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"subsec","id":"/us/usc/t49/s49102/b","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(b)"},{"t":"heading","text":"Inclusion of Baltimore/Washington International Airport Not Precluded.\u2014"},{"t":"content","text":"This chapter does not prohibit the Airports Authority and Maryland from making an agreement to make Baltimore/Washington International Airport part of a regional airports authority, subject to terms agreed to by the Airports Authority, the Secretary of Transportation, Virginia, the District of Columbia, and Maryland.","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"text","text":"\n"},{"t":"text","text":"\n"}]}]}