# Criminal Law (GCR)

## Title 9. Crimes Against Public Administration

### Subtitle 7. Sabotage

#### Section 9-704

(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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Md. Code Ann., Crim. Law (as displayed at mgaleg.maryland.gov, October 16, 2026)