Section 9-704 - Identification badges and identification cards - Certain facilities. - Maryland Statutes

§ 9-704. Identification badges and identification cards - Certain facilities.
 

(a)  Application of section.- This section applies to a person possessing an identification badge or identification card required for employment or visitation that is issued by: 

(1) a unit of the State or a county, municipal corporation, special taxing district, or public corporation of the State; or 

(2) a person that owns or operates in the State: 

(i) a factory or warehouse or a manufacturing, printing, publishing, mechanical, or mercantile establishment or a plant of any kind; 

(ii) a mine or quarry; 

(iii) a railway; or 

(iv) a water, sewage, gas, electric, transmission, heating, refrigerating, telephone, or other publicly owned or public service company. 

(b)  Surrender required at end of employment or visit.- A person shall surrender each identification badge or identification card to its issuer when the person's employment or authorized visit ends. 

(c)  Prohibited.- A person may not knowingly possess an identification badge or identification card after the person's employment or authorized visit ends. 

(d)  Penalty.- A person who willfully violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction is subject to imprisonment not exceeding 90 days or a fine not exceeding $500 or both. 
 

[An. Code 1957, art. 27, §§ 535(e), 538; 2002, ch. 26, § 2.]