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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>85977</law_id><section_number>33.2-3401</section_number><catch_line>Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority Capital Fund</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>33.2-1526.1</reference><reference>58.1-1741</reference><reference>58.1-1743</reference><reference>58.1-2299.20</reference><reference>58.1-802.3</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="33.2">Highways and Other Surface Transportation Systems</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="IV">Local and Regional Transportation</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="34">Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority Capital Fund</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> There is hereby created in the state treasury a special nonreverting <span class="dictionary">fund</span> for the benefit of the Northern Virginia Transportation District to be known as the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority Capital <span class="dictionary">Fund</span>. The <span class="dictionary">Fund</span> shall be established on the books of the Comptroller. All revenues dedicated to the <span class="dictionary">Fund</span> pursuant to &#xA7;&#xA7; <a class="law" title="Northern Virginia Transportation District Fund" href="/33.2-2400/">33.2-2400</a>, <a class="law" title="Local transportation support for WMATA" href="/33.2-3404/">33.2-3404</a>, <a class="law" title="Regional transportation improvement fee" href="/58.1-802.3/">58.1-802.3</a>, <a class="law" title="Disposition of revenues" href="/58.1-1741/">58.1-1741</a>, <a class="law" title="(For expiration date, see Acts 2020, cc. 1230 and 1275, and cc. 1241 and 1281) Transportation district transient occupancy tax" href="/58.1-1743/">58.1-1743</a>, and <a class="law" title="Disposition of tax revenues" href="/58.1-2299.20/">58.1-2299.20</a> shall be paid into the state treasury and credited to the <span class="dictionary">Fund</span> as set forth in subsection B and shall be used for the payment of capital purposes incurred, or to be incurred, by <span class="dictionary">WMATA</span>. Interest on moneys in the <span class="dictionary">Fund</span> shall remain in the <span class="dictionary">Fund</span> and be credited to it. Any moneys remaining in the <span class="dictionary">Fund</span>, including interest thereon, at the end of each fiscal year shall not revert to the general <span class="dictionary">fund</span> but shall remain in the <span class="dictionary">Fund</span>. The Comptroller shall disburse <span class="dictionary">funds</span> to <span class="dictionary">WMATA</span> on a monthly basis if <span class="dictionary">NVTC</span> has provided the certification required by subsection B of &#xA7; <a class="law" title="NVTC oversight" href="/33.2-3402/">33.2-3402</a>. <a id="paragraph-307940" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/33.2-3401/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> 1. Within the <span class="dictionary">Fund</span>, there shall be established a separate, segregated account into which revenues dedicated to the <span class="dictionary">Fund</span> pursuant to &#xA7;&#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Northern Virginia Transportation District Fund" href="/33.2-2400/">33.2-2400</a> and <a class="law" title="Disposition of revenues" href="/58.1-1741/">58.1-1741</a> shall be deposited (the Restricted Account). Revenues deposited into the Restricted Account shall be available for use by <span class="dictionary">WMATA</span> for capital purposes other than for the payment of, or security for, debt service on <span class="dictionary">bonds</span> or other indebtedness of <span class="dictionary">WMATA</span>. <a id="paragraph-307941" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/33.2-3401/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B2" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">2.</span> Within the <span class="dictionary">Fund</span>, there shall be established a separate, segregated account into which revenues dedicated to the <span class="dictionary">Fund</span> pursuant to &#xA7;&#xA7; <a class="law" title="Local transportation support for WMATA" href="/33.2-3404/">33.2-3404</a>, <a class="law" title="Regional transportation improvement fee" href="/58.1-802.3/">58.1-802.3</a>, <a class="law" title="(For expiration date, see Acts 2020, cc. 1230 and 1275, and cc. 1241 and 1281) Transportation district transient occupancy tax" href="/58.1-1743/">58.1-1743</a>, and <a class="law" title="Disposition of tax revenues" href="/58.1-2299.20/">58.1-2299.20</a> shall be deposited (the Non-Restricted Account). Revenues deposited into the Non-Restricted Account shall be available for use by <span class="dictionary">WMATA</span> for capital purposes, including for the payment of, or security for, debt service on <span class="dictionary">bonds</span> or other indebtedness of <span class="dictionary">WMATA</span>, or for any other <span class="dictionary">WMATA</span> capital purposes. <a id="paragraph-307942" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/33.2-3401/#B2"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="C"><p><span class="prefix-number">C.</span> The amounts deposited into the <span class="dictionary">Fund</span> and the distribution and expenditure of such amounts shall not be used to calculate or reduce the share of federal, state, or local revenues otherwise available to participating <span class="dictionary">jurisdictions</span>. Further, such revenues and moneys shall not be included in any computation of, or formula for, a locality&#x2019;s ability to pay for public education, upon which appropriations of state revenues to local governments for public education are determined. <a id="paragraph-307943" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/33.2-3401/#C"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>2018, cc. 854, 856.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
