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The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?011+ful+CHAP0342\">342<\/a> of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":233631,"object_type":"law","relational_id":69782,"identifier":"5.1-154","token":"5.1\/10\/5.1-154","url":"\/5.1-154\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/5.1-154\/","token":"5.1\/10\/5.1-154","dublin_core":{"Title":"Acquisition of airports; approval","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 5.1-154","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section><p>The Metropolitan Washington <span class=\"dictionary\">Airports<\/span> Authority created by this act is hereby authorized, when similarly authorized by the District of Columbia, to acquire from the United States of America, by lease or otherwise, the two <span class=\"dictionary\">airports<\/span> known as Ronald Reagan Washington National <span class=\"dictionary\">Airport<\/span> and Washington Dulles International <span class=\"dictionary\">Airport<\/span> and all related properties now administered by the Metropolitan Washington <span class=\"dictionary\">Airports<\/span>, an agency of the Federal Aviation Administration of the United States <span class=\"dictionary\">Department<\/span> of Transportation, but only with the approval of the Governor of Virginia. 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Subject to such gubernatorial approval, general consent is\nhereby given to conditions imposed by the Congress of the United States on such\nacquisitions that are not inconsistent with this act.\n\nHISTORY: 2001, c. 342.","edition":{"id":1,"name":"2025","slug":"2025","date_created":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","date_modified":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","current":1,"order_by":1,"last_import":null}}