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<section article="gps" article_name="Public Safety" number="7-402" title_number="7" title_name="Fire, Rescue, or Emergency Medical Services Entities" subtitle_number="4">
  <level label="a">
    <text>A person may not willfully interfere with or obstruct a firefighter, a rescue squad member, or emergency services personnel while the firefighter, rescue squad member, or emergency services personnel:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>is fighting a fire, performing emergency services, or proceeding to a fire or other emergency; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>is dispatched on a call for emergency services.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>A person may not, with fraudulent design on person or property, falsely represent that the person is a member of a career or volunteer fire department, rescue squad, or emergency services unit of the State or a county or municipal corporation of the State.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>A person may not have, use, wear, or display without proper authority, for the purpose of deception, a uniform, shield, button, ornament, identification, or shoulder patch, or a simulation or imitation of these articles, adopted by a career or volunteer fire department, rescue squad, or emergency services unit.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>A person who violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction is subject to imprisonment not exceeding 3 years.</text>
  </level>
</section>
