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<section article="gbo" article_name="Business Occupations and Professions" number="19-603" title_number="19" title_name="Security Guard Agencies and Security Guard Certification" subtitle_number="6" subtitle_name="Prohibited Acts; Penalties">
  <level label="a">
    <text>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.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>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.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>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:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>represents that the individual is a security guard; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>otherwise represents that the individual is associated with a security guard agency.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
