§ 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.

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