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<section article="gbr" article_name="Business Regulation" number="6-5A-08" title_number="6" title_name="Charitable Organizations and Charitable Representatives" subtitle_number="5A" subtitle_name="Public Safety Solicitors">
  <text>A public safety solicitor may not:</text>
  <level label="1">
    <text>falsely state, imply, or mislead, directly or indirectly, the person solicited for a public safety contribution that the public safety solicitor is a fire fighting, ambulance, rescue, police, fraternal, or other law enforcement employee or member;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="2">
    <text>send an individual to personally pick up a public safety contribution from a private residence, business, or any other location, unless the individual presents at the time of the solicitation, collection, or attempt to collect:</text>
    <level label="i">
      <text>photo identification; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="ii">
      <text>correspondence from the public safety organization authorizing the public safety solicitor to solicit on behalf of the public safety organization for a stated period of time;</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="3">
    <text>solicit in the State using an alias, fictitious, or false name other than the full name of the public safety organization on whose behalf the public safety contribution is solicited as stated in the application for registration as a public safety solicitor; or</text>
  </level>
  <level label="4">
    <text>promise, directly or indirectly, or imply that the individual or business being solicited will receive any additional or different law enforcement services or treatment by a fire fighting, ambulance, rescue, police, fraternal, or other law enforcement organization or employee as a result of a pledge or refusal to make a public safety contribution.</text>
  </level>
</section>
