Title 19. Security Guard Agencies and Security Guard Certification — Subtitle 6. Prohibited Acts; Penalties

Unless authorized under this title to engage in business for the purpose of providing security guard services, a person may not represent to the public, by use of a title, including “licensed security guard agency”, “security guard agency”, or “security guards”, by description of services, methods, or procedures, or otherwise, that the person is authorized to engage in the business of providing security guard services in the State.

Unless an individual is certified as a security guard under this title, the individual may not represent to the public, by use of a title, including “certified security guard”, or by use of a badge or identification card, that the individual is certified as a security guard under this title.

Except as authorized under this title, a security guard agency may not provide any person with a badge or a certification card or other document indicating that any individual is a security guard.

A certified security guard may not lend the security guard’s certification card or badge to another person or allow another person to use or display the card or badge.

Regardless of any association that an individual may have with a security guard agency, unless authorized under this title, the individual may not wear or carry a badge that:

A licensee may not knowingly alter, deface, or destroy or knowingly allow the alteration, defacement, or destruction of an agency license certificate or branch office certificate.

A person who violates any provision of this title is guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction is subject to a fine not exceeding $1,000 or imprisonment not exceeding 1 year or both.

The fines assessed under §§ 19-313 and 19-408 of this title may not exceed $5,000 per violation, or a maximum aggregate of $10,000 for a 2-year license term, and shall be paid to the Secretary within 10 days after final adjudication of any hearing or upon the waiver of any hearing.

Notwithstanding the provisions of §§ 19-313 and 19-408 of this title, the Secretary may fine either the licensed agency or the individual working on behalf of the licensed agency, but not both, for the same violation.