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Regional Transit Police Services
   Public Utilities Code
 
  Prohibited Acts Committed In or On Public Transportation
                      Vehicles and Facilities

99170. (a) PUC No person shall do any of the following with respect to the property, facilities, or vehicles of a transit district:

    1. Operate, interfere with, enter into, or climb on or in, the property, facilities, or vehicles owned or operated by the transit district without the permission or approval of the transit district.
       
    2. Interfere with the operator or operation of a transit vehicle, or impede the safe boarding or alighting of passengers.
       
    3. Extend any portion of the body through any window opening of a transit vehicle in a manner that may cause harm or injury.
       
    4. Throw any object from a transit vehicle.
       
    5. Commit any act or engage in any behavior that may, with reasonable foreseeability, cause harm or injury to any person or property.
       
    6. Violate a notice, prohibition, instruction, or direction on any sign that is intended to provide for the safety and security of transit passengers, or the safe and secure operation of the transit system.

(b) For purposes of this section, "transit district" means an entity that qualifies as a claimant, as defined in Section 99203, eligible to receive allocations under Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 99200).

(c) A violation of this section is an infraction under Section 19.8 of the Penal Code punishable by a fine not exceeding seventy-five dollars ($75), and that a violation by a person after a second conviction is punishable by a fine not exceeding two hundred fifty dollars ($250) or by community service that does not conflict with the violator's hours of school attendance or employment for a total time not to exceed 48 hours over a period not to exceed 60 days.

(d) A transit district shall provide reasonable notification to the public of the activities prohibited by this section and the penalties for violations of those prohibitions.

(e) This section does not prohibit any person from engaging in activities that are protected under the laws of the United States or of this state, including, but not limited to, picketing, demonstrating, or distributing handbills.

(f) Transit districts shall maintain records of violations and the number of citations issued with respect to the actions prohibited under this section until January 1, 2005. The transit districts shall prepare a summary report of these actions and related findings with respect to the implementation and operation of this section and shall submit the report to the Legislature on or before January 1, 2006.

(g) No revenue from fines imposed pursuant to subdivision (c) shall be distributed or allocated to the transit agency issuing citations under this section. Fine revenue instead shall be allocated to the other entities eligible to receive those funds under existing law.

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