                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

POWERS AND DUTIES OF THE AUTHORITY (§ 5.1-156)

A. For the purpose of acquiring, operating, maintaining, developing, promoting
and protecting Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport and Washington Dulles
International Airport together as primary airports for public purposes serving
the metropolitan Washington area, the Authority shall have all necessary or
convenient powers including, but not limited to, the power:

   1. To adopt and amend bylaws for the regulation of its affairs and the conduct
   of its business;

   2. To plan, establish, operate, develop, construct, enlarge, maintain, equip
   and protect the airports;

   3. To adopt and amend regulations to carry out the powers granted by this
   section;

   4. To adopt an official seal and alter the same at its pleasure;

   5. To appoint one or more advisory committees;

   6. To issue revenue bonds of the Authority for any of its purposes, payable
   solely from the fees and revenues pledged for their payment, and to refund its
   bonds, all as provided in this act;

   7. To borrow money on a short-term basis and issue from time to time its notes
   therefor payable on such terms, conditions or provisions as it may deem
   advisable;

   8. To fix, revise, charge, and collect rates, fees, rentals and other charges
   for the use of the airports;

   9. To acquire, hold and dispose of real and personal property in the exercise
   of its powers and the performance of its duties under this act;

   10. To employ, in its discretion, consulting engineers, attorneys,
   accountants, construction and financial experts, superintendents, managers,
   and such other employees and agents as may be necessary, and to fix their
   compensation and benefits. Employees of the Authority shall not participate in
   any strike or assert any right to strike against the Authority, and any
   employment agreement entered into by the Authority shall contain an explicit
   prohibition against strikes by the employee or employees covered by such
   agreement. The Authority shall comply with any act of Congress concerning
   former employees of the Federal Aviation Administration and Metropolitan
   Washington Airports;

   11. To sue and be sued in its own name, plead and be impleaded;

   12. To construct or permit the construction of commercial and other facilities
   consistent with the purposes of this act upon the airport property on terms
   established by the Authority;

   13. To make and enter into all contracts and agreements necessary or desirable
   to the performance of its duties, the proper operation of the airports and the
   furnishing of services to the travelling public and airport users, including
   contracts for normal governmental services on a reimbursable basis with local
   political subdivisions where the Authority Facilities are situated and with
   the District of Columbia government; and any such contracts shall be exclusive
   or limited when it is necessary to further the public safety, improve the
   quality of service, avoid duplication of services, or conserve airport
   property and the airport environment;

   14. To apply for, receive and accept such payments, appropriations, grants,
   gifts, loans, advances, and other funds, properties, and services as may be
   transferred or made available to it by the United States government or any
   other public or private entity or individual;

   15. To make payments to reimburse the local political subdivisions where the
   Authority Facilities are situated for extraordinary law-enforcement costs
   incurred by such localities; and

   16. To do all acts and things necessary or convenient to carry out the powers
   expressly granted in this act.

B. Pursuant to Section 6007 (b) of the Metropolitan Washington Airports Act of
1986, the Authority is established solely to operate and improve both
metropolitan Washington airports as primary airports serving the metropolitan
Washington area and shall be independent of the Commonwealth and its local
political subdivisions, the District of Columbia and the federal government in
the performance and exercise of the airport-related duties and powers enumerated
in subdivisions 1 through 16 of subsection A of this section. Any conflict
between the exercise of these enumerated powers by the Authority and the powers
of any local political subdivision within which Authority Facilities are
situated shall be resolved in favor of the Authority.

HISTORY: 2001, c. 342.