Identification badges and identification cards -- Certain facilities

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    (a)    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)    A person shall surrender each identification badge or identification card to its issuer when the person’s employment or authorized visit ends.

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

    (d)    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.


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