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.
PL 89-599 (S.3051), enacted 09/21/1966

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PUBLIC LAW 89-599-SEPT. 21, 1966 
[80 STAT. 
Public Law 89-599 
September 21, 1966 
[S. 3051] 
Missouri-
Kansas interstate 
compact. 
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. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That, subject to the 
provisions of section 2 of this Act, the Congress consents to the 
compact between the States of Missouri and Kansas which reads as 
follows: 
"COMPACT BETWEEN MISSOURI AND KANSAS CREAT-
ING THE KANSAS CITY AREA TRANSPORTATION DIS-
TRICT AND T H E 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. 
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"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 re-
ferred to as the 'Authoritv'), 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, con-
struct, 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 facil-
ities 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, construc-
tion, equipping, operation, maintenance, repair, extension, and 
improvement of any facility which it has tlie 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 instru-
ments in writing for the purpose of refunding, extending or uni-
fying 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 m 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 negotiaJble 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 mort-
gage 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 exceed-
ing 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 inconsist-
ent 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 pro-
cedure of the Act of the State of Kansas providing for the exercise 
of the right of eminent domain, and if the property to be con-
demned 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 author-
ity, administrative, judicial or legislative, having jurisdiction in 
the j)remises, for the adoption of plans for and execution of any 
physical improvements, change in methods, rate of transportation, 
M-hich, in the opinion of iho, 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. 
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"ARTICLE 
IV. 
"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 regu-
lating the payment into sinking funds of revenues derived from munic-
ipal property or dedicating the revenues derived from any municipal 
property to a specific purpose. 
"IJnless 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 vice-
chairman, 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 meet-
ing, 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. 
" I N WITNESS THEREOF, we have hereunder set our hands and seals 
under authority vested in us by law this twenty-eighth day of Decem-
ber, 1965. 
"(Signed). 
"In the Presence of: 
"(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 com-
pact, 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 Trans-
portation 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 ex-
ception shall not affect the power or authority of the Interstate Com-
merce Commission to regulate and apply the provisions of the Inter-
state Commerce Act, as amended, to other persons engaged in the 
transportation of passengers or property in interstate or foreign com-
merce 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 I I I 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 Dis-
trict and the Kansas City Area Transportation Authority shall not 
acquire, construct, maintain, operate, or lease to others for mainte-
nance 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. 
Public Law 89-600 
AN ACT 
To declare the Old Georgetown Market a historic landmark and to require its 
preservation and continued use as a public market, and for other purposes. 
September 21,1966 
[H. R. 14205] 
D.C. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assenwled^ That the real prop-
erty, together with all structures thereon on the date of enactment of Market. ^°^^^ ""^ 
this Act, described as lot 800, square 1186, of the District of Columbia, 
commonly known as the Old Georgetown Market, is hereby declared a 
historic landmark, and the Board of Commissioners of the District of 
Columbia are authorized and directed to preserve such property as a 
historic landmark and to operate and maintain it as a public market, 
except that the Board is authorized to enter into an agreement with 
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