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1 Legislative History of the D.C. Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Regulation Compact Amendments (D.C. Code 1-1431c) P.L. 94-306 1 (1976)

handle is hein.leghis/legdcmetr0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Public Law 94-306
94th Congress, H. R. 8719
June 4, 1976

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To provide for an amendment to the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit
Regulation Compact to provide for the protection of the patrons, personnel,
and property of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Congress
hereby consents to. and adopts and enacts for the District of Columbia,
amendments to articles I and XVI of title III of the Washington
Metropolitan Area Transit Regulation Compact (D.C. Code, sec.
1-1431 note) as follows, which amendments have been adopted sub-
stantially by the Commonwealth of Virginia and the State of
Maryland:
(1) Section 1(g) of article I is amended by striking and at the
end thereof.
(2) Section 1 (h) of article I is amended to read as follows:
(h) 'Transit Zone' or 'Zone' means the Washington Metropolitan
Area Transit Zone created by and described in section 3, as well as
any additional area that may be added pursuant to section 83(a)
and.
(3) Section 1 of article I is amended by adding at the end thereof
the following:
(i) 'WMATC' means Washington Metropolitan Area Transit
Commission..
(4) Section 76 of articl6 XVI is amended to read as follows:
76. (a) The Authority is authorized to establish and maintain a
regular police force, to be known as the Metro Transit Police, to pro-
vide protection for its patrons, personnel, and transit facilities. The
Metro Transit Police shall have the powers and duties and shall be
subject to the limitations set forth in this section. It shall be composed
of both uniformed and plainclothes personnel and shall be charged
with the duty of enforcing the laws of the signatories, the laws, ordi-
nances, and regulations of the political subdivisions thereof in the
Transit Zone, and the rules and regulations of the Authority. The
jurisdiction of the Metro Transit Police shall be limited to all the
transit facilities owned, controlled, or operated by the Authority, but
this shall not limit the power of the Metro Transit Police to make
arrests in the Transit Zone for violations committed upon, to, or
against such transit facilities committed from within or outside such
transit facilities while in hot or close pursuit, or to execute traffic
citations and criminal process in accordance with subsection (c). The
members of the Metro Transit Police shall have concurrent jurisdic-
tion in the performance of their duties with the duly constituted law
enforcement agencies of the signatories and of the political subdivi-
sions thereof in which any transit facility of the Authority is located
or in which the Authority operates any transit service. Nothing con-
tained in -this section shall either relieve any signatory or political
subdivision or agency thereof from its duty to provide police, fire,
and other public safety service and protection, or limit, restrict, or
interfere with the jurisdiction of or the performance of duties by the
existing police, fire, and other public safety agencies.
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