PUBLIC LAW 103-272—JULY 5, 1994 108 STAT. 905 (h) NONAPPLICATION OF PAY PERIOD LAWS.^A State or local law related to pay periods or days for payment of employees does not apply to Amtrak. Except when otherwise provided under a collective bargaining agreement, an employee of Amtrak shall be paid at least as frequently as the employee was paid on October 1, 1979. (i) PREEMPTION REL/^TED TO EMPLOYEE WORK REQUIREMENTS.— A State may not adopt or continue in force a law, rule, regulation, order, or standard requiring Amtrak to employ a specified number of individuals to perform a particular task, function, or operation. (j) NONAPPLICATION OF LAWS ON JOINT USE OR OPERATION OF FACILITIES AND EQUIPMENT. —Prohibitions of law applicable to an agreement for the joint use or operation of facilities and equipment necessary to provide quick and efficient rail passenger transportation do not apply to a person making an agreement with Amtrak to the extent necessary to allow the person to make and carry out obligations under the agreement. (k) EXEMPTION FROM ADDITIONAL TAXES.— (1) In this subsection— (A) "additional tax" means a tax or fee— (i) on the acquisition, improvement, ownership, or operation of personal property by Amtrak; and (ii) on real property, except a tax or fee on the acquisition of real property or on the value of real property not attributable to improvements made, or the operation of those improvements, by Amtrsik. (B) "Amtrak" includes a rail carrier subsidiary of Amtrak and a lessor oi" lessee of Amtrak or one of its rail carrier subsidiaries. (2) Amtrak is not required to pay an additional tax because of an expenditure to acquire or improve real property, equipment, a facility, or right-of-way materi2d or structures used in providing rail passenger transportation, even if that use is indirect. (1) EXEMPTION FROM TAXES LEVIED AFTER SEPTEMBER 30, 1981.— (1) Amtrak or a rail carrier subsidiary of Amtrak is exempt from a tax or fee imposed by a State, a political subdivision of a State, or a local taxing authority and levied on it after September 30, 1981. However, Amtrak is not exempt under this subsection from a tax or fee that it was required to pay as of September 10, 1982. (2) The district courts of the United States have original jurisdiction over a civil action Amtrak brings to enforce this subsection and may grant equitable or declaratory relief requested by Amtrak. (m) WASTE DISPOSAL,.— (1) An intercity rail passenger car manufactured after October 14, 1990, shall be built to provide for the discharge of human waste only at a servicing facility. Amtrak shall retrofit each of its intercity rail passenger cars that was manufactured after May 1, 1971, and before October 15, 1990, with a human waste disposal system that provides for the discharge of human waste only at a servicing facility. Subject to appropriations— (A) the retrofit program shall be completed not later than October 15, 1996; and (B) a car that does not provide for the discharge of human waste only at a servicing facility shall be removed from service after that date.
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