Washington (D.C.) Metropolitan Transit Authority: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce House of Representatives Eighty-fourth Congress, Second Session, on H.R. 8901 and H.R. 8947, Bills to Provide for an Adequate and Economically Sound Transportation System Or Systems to Serve the District of Columbia and Its Environs ; to Create and Establish a Public Body Corporate with Powers to Carry Out the Provisions of this Act ; and for Other Purposes. February 20, 21, 23, March 1 and 8, 1956U.S. Government Printing Office, 1956 - 530 pages Considers legislation to establish the D.C. Metropolitan Transit Authority. Also reviews D.C. Board of Commissioners' efforts at finding private interests to administer D.C. transit system. |
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Page 486 - No person in the employ of or holding any official relation to any common carrier subject to the provisions of this act, or owning stock or bonds thereof, or who is in any manner pecuniarily interested therein, shall enter upon the duties of or hold such office. Said Commissioners shall not engage in any other business, vocation or employment.
Page 325 - It shall be the duty of all carriers, their officers, agents, and employees to exert every reasonable effort to make and maintain agreements concerning rates of pay, rules, and working conditions...
Page 101 - The corporation, Including Its franchise, Its capital, reserves and surplus, and its income, shall be exempt from all taxation now or hereafter Imposed by the United States, by any territory, dependency, or possession thereof, or by any state, county, municipality, or local taxing authority; except...
Page 117 - Law 763 provides that the compensation of such employees shall be fixed and adjusted from time to time as nearly as is consistent with the public interest in accordance with prevailing rates. A general survey of Government and industrial employees...
Page 118 - An Act to provide compensation for employees of the United States suffering injuries while in the performance of their duties, and for other purposes...
Page 325 - ... to provide for the complete independence of carriers and of employees in the matter of self-organization to carry out the purposes of this Act; (4) to provide for the prompt and orderly settlement of all disputes concerning rates of pay, rules, or working conditions...
Page 101 - ... income shall be exempt from all taxation now or hereafter imposed by the United States, by any Territory, dependency or possession thereof, or by any State, county, municipality or local taxing authority ; except that any real property of the corporation shall be subject to State, Territorial, county, municipal or local taxation to the same extent, according to its value, as other real property is taxed.
Page 489 - Commission, which shall be a body corporate, with the powers and duties set forth herein, and such additional powers as may be conferred upon it by subsequent action of the respective legislatures of the signatory States or by act or acts of the Congress of the United States.
Page 145 - Any holder of bonds issued under the provisions of this act or any of the coupons appertaining thereto, and the trustee under any trust agreement, except to the extent the rights herein given may be restricted by such trust...
Page 118 - Administrator, no political test or qualification shall be permitted or given consideration, but all such appointments and promotions shall be given and made on the basis of merit and efficiency.