Section 18-1604. DAMAGING OR TAMPERING WITH THE STREETCAR SYSTEM

 

1604.1 The following acts are prohibited:

 

(a)Breaking, damaging, defacing, tampering with, or removing any part of a streetcar, streetcar guideway, or streetcar platform; or

 

(b)Interfering with or preventing the operation of a streetcar, streetcar platform, or streetcar guideway.

 

1604.2 Except as provided in Subsection 1604.3, only a person authorized by DDOT may manipulate any of the levers, buttons, cranks, brakes, or other mechanisms of a streetcar, including the emergency stop device, or to set a streetcar into motion.

 

1604.3An act that is otherwise prohibited under Subsection 1604.2 may be taken:

 

(a)To respond to an emergency or in furtherance of public safety; but only to the extent a reasonable person would perform the act in such a situation, or

 

(b)By or under the direction of a person authorized as part of his or her official duties to take or direct such action.

 

authority

Sections 5(2)(N) and 11r of the Department of Transportation Establishment Act of 2002, effective May 21, 2002 (D.C. Law 14-137; D.C. Official Code §§ 50-921.04(2)(N) and 50-921.76 (2012 Repl. & 2014 Supp.)), and Mayor’s Order 2013-198, dated October 24, 2013.

source

Final Rulemaking published at 61 DCR 12286 (November 28, 2014).