Transportation: San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District: policing responsibilities.

(1) Under existing law, a person who enters or remains upon any land, facilities, or vehicles owned, leased, or possessed by specified transit entities that are used to provide public transportation by rail or passenger bus, or are directly related to that use, without permission, or whose entry, presence, or conduct upon the property interferes with, interrupts, or hinders the safe and efficient operation of the transit-related facility, is guilty of a misdemeanor. Existing law creates the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District (BART) . Existing law authorizes BART to acquire, construct, own, operate, control, or use rights-of-way, rail lines, bus lines, stations, platforms, switches, yards, terminals, parking lots, and any and all other facilities necessary or convenient for rapid transit service, as specified. This bill would specify that a person who enters or remains upon any property, facilities, or vehicles upon which BART owes policing responsibilities to a local government pursuant to an operations and maintenance agreement or similar interagency agreement without permission, or whose entry, presence, or conduct upon that property interferes with, interrupts, or hinders the safe and efficient operation of the transit-related facility, is guilty of a misdemeanor. By creating a new crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (2) Existing law prohibits a person from committing certain actions related to the property, facilities, or vehicles of a transit district, including prohibiting a person from operating, interfering with, entering into, or climbing on or in, a property, facility, or vehicle owned or operated by the transit district without the permission or approval of the transit district. Existing law authorizes specified transit districts to issue prohibition orders to any person that is cited 3 times within a period of 90 days for specified infractions committed in or on a vehicle, bus stop, or train or light rail station of a transit district, and prohibits a person issued a prohibition order from entering those properties, facilities, or vehicles, as specified. This bill would extend those prohibitions and the scope of the prohibition orders to include the property, facilities, or vehicles upon which BART owes policing responsibilities to a local government pursuant to an operations and maintenance agreement or similar interagency agreement. (3) Existing law authorizes a public transportation agency, as defined, to enact and enforce an ordinance to impose and enforce an administrative penalty for specified acts. This bill would authorize a transit district's ordinance to be enforced outside of the transit district's jurisdiction only where the local jurisdiction has adopted the transit district's ordinance by reference as authorized by the local jurisdiction's governing body. (4) This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for BART. (5) This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 99171 of the Public Utilities Code proposed by SB 357 to be operative only if this bill and SB 357 are enacted and this bill is enacted last. (6) The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.