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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 680

Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority -
Metro Transit Police
MC/PG 30-85

FOR the purpose of amending the Washington Metropolitan Area
Transit Authority (WMATA) Compact to provide that the metro
transit police may, under certain circumstances, carry and
use only such weapons approved, in addition to those weapons
issued by, the Authority; making a technical change;
providing that this Act may not take effect until certain
events take place; and generally relating to the WMATA metro
transit police.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article - Transportation

Section 10-204 Title III Article XVI Subsection 76(b)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1977 Volume and 1984 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

Article - Transportation

10-204.

Title III

Article XVI

76.

(b) [(1)] Except as otherwise provided in this section, a
member of the metro transit police shall have the same powers,
including the power of arrest, and shall be subject to the same
limitations, including regulatory limitations, in the performance
of his duties as a member of the duly constituted police force of
the political subdivision in which the metro transit police
member is engaged in the performance of his duties. However, a
member of the metro transit police is authorized to carry and use
only such weapons, including handguns, as are issued OR OTHERWISE
APPROVED by the Authority, and only in the performance of his
duties or while on the transit facilities owned, controlled, or
operated by the Authority in direct transit to and from a duty
assignment. A member of the metro transit police is authorized
to carry such weapons only while in direct transit to and from a
duty assignment and is subject to such additional limitations in
the use of weapons as are imposed on the duly constituted police
force for the political subdivision in which he is engaged in the
performance of his duties.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act may not
take effect until similar Acts are passed by the District of