The Secretary of Transportation is authorized to make payments to the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority in amounts sufficient to finance 80 per centum of the cost of providing such facilities for the subway and rapid rail transit system authorized in this subchapter as may be necessary to make such subway and system accessible by the handicapped through implementation of Public Laws 90-480 and 91-205 (Chapter 51 of Title 42, United States Code). There is authorized to be appropriated, to carry out this section, an amount not to exceed $65,000,000.
(Aug. 13, 1973, 87 Stat. 271, Pub. L. 93-87, title I, § 140.)
1981 Ed., § 1-2453.
1973 Ed., § 1-1442a.
Blind and physically disabled persons, equal access to public conveyances and accommodations, see § 7-1002.
Structure District of Columbia Code
Title 9 - Transportation Systems
Chapter 11 - National Capital Region Transportation
Subchapter VI - Adopted Regional System
§ 9–1111.02. Federal contributions
§ 9–1111.03. District of Columbia contributions
§ 9–1111.04. Approval for construction required
§ 9–1111.05. Disposal of excess revenues
§ 9–1111.06. Guarantee of obligations
§ 9–1111.07. Periodic payments to Authority. [Repealed]
§ 9–1111.08. Authorization of appropriations
§ 9–1111.09. Obligations as lawful investments
§ 9–1111.10. Appropriation for Arlington Cemetery and Smithsonian transit stations
§ 9–1111.11. Authorization of additional federal contributions for construction
§ 9–1111.14. Authorization of additional federal contributions for construction
§ 9–1111.15. Establishment of Metrorail/Metrobus Account