BLAIR LEE III,

Acting Governor

657

(a) The Authority is authorized to establish and
maintain a regular police force, to be known as the metro
transit police, to provide protection for [it] 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, and the laws, ordinances 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) below. The members of the metro transit police shall
have concurrent jurisdiction in the performance of their
duties with the duly constituted law-enforcement agencies of
the signatories and of the political subdivisions thereof in
which any transit facility of the Authority is located or in
which the Authority operates any transit service. Nothing
contained 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.

21-502.

(a) (2) If a traffic control signal is not in
operation, the driver of a vehicle shall yield the
right—of—way and, if necessary, slow down or stop to yield
the right-of—way to a pedestrian who is crossing the roadway
in a marked crosswalk or in an unmarked crosswalk at an
intersection, if the pedestrian is:

(i) [On the] ON THE HALF of the roadway
on which the vehicle is traveling; or

(ii) Approaching so closely from the other
half of the roadway as to be in danger.

21-1005.

(d)    After the Administration issues the permit, the
Administration shall notify the State Highway Administration
or, as to parking spaces in Baltimore City, the Baltimore
City Department of Transit and Traffic.

(e)    Except in Baltimore City, within 30 days after it
receives the notification required by [subsection (e)]
SUBSECTION (D) of this section, the state Highway