Maryland Transportation Authority Agency Response Form
note that these actions require significant time to implement. Executing reciprocity agreements, for example, depends on MDTA’s counterparts in other states to navigate laws and regulations associated with their respective transportation systems, creating long and unpredictable timelines for implementation. MDTA is committed to ensuring the below corrective actions are fulfilled in accordance with best practices, and implementing systems that will ensure the agency maximizes all opportunities to capture available revenues while holding debtors accountable to paying their dues to the State of Maryland.
Recommendation 1a Agree
Estimated Completion Date: 3Q 2027 for Pennsylvania
Please provide details of corrective action or explain disagreement.
Maryland law (Transportation Article § 21-1415) authorizes the Maryland Transportation Authority (MDTA) to create agreements with other jurisdictions for reciprocal toll violation enforcement. The agency recognizes the importance of pursuing toll enforcement reciprocity to collect unpaid tolls from out-of-state motorists. The implementation of reciprocal toll enforcement agreements is one of multiple strategies currently underway to aid in the collection of out-of-state toll debt. While reciprocity agreements are valuable tools to encourage payment compliance, the development and implementation of reciprocal toll enforcement agreements are challenging for the State of Maryland, as well as other tolling agencies nationally. As noted in the MDTA’s 2024 and 2025 Joint Chairmen’s Report responses to the Maryland General Assembly, several of the primary obstacles, which complicate the development and implementation of reciprocal toll enforcement agreements, include (1) the notable differences in motor vehicle toll enforcement actions and financial penalties for unpaid tolls among states; (2) the need for the statutes, regulations, policies, operational processes, and technical capabilities of the agencies governing toll collection (tolling and motor vehicle) within each jurisdiction to be evaluated, and, where necessary, aligned before reaching a final agreement; and (3) reciprocal toll enforcement agreements are executed on a peer agency-to-peer agency basis rather than through direct state-to- state agreements. Currently, the State of Maryland is working diligently toward establishing its inaugural reciprocal toll enforcement agreement with the
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