Opinion ID: 2181533
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Heading: WMATA Compact

Text: In 1966, the District of Columbia, the State of Maryland, and the Commonwealth of Virginia created WMATA by entering into an interstate compact called the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority Compact (hereinafter the Compact). See D.C.Code § 9-1107.01 (2003) (containing the current provisions of the Compact); 80 Stat. 1324 (1966). One purpose of the Compact was to create a regional instrumentality ... empowered... to plan, develop, finance and cause to be operated improved transit facilities.... Id., art. II, cl. 2. The Compact also provides that WMATA may: (d) Construct, acquire, own, operate, maintain, control, sell and convey real and personal property and any interest therein by contract, purchase, condemnation, lease, license, mortgage or otherwise but all of said property shall be ... necessary or useful in rendering transit service or in activities incidental thereto... [and]