N.Y. General Business Law § 80: License certificates, pocket cards or badges

§ 80. License certificates, pocket cards or badges. Upon the issuing

of a license as hereinbefore provided the department of state shall

issue to each person, partner, member of a limited liability company or

officer of a corporation making and filing a statement required by

section seventy-two of this article a pocket card of such size and

design as the department of state may prescribe, which card shall

contain a photograph of the licensee, the name and business address of

the licensee and the imprint or impress of the seal of the department of

state which pocket card shall be evidence of due authorization pursuant

to the terms of this article. All persons to whom such license

certificates or pocket cards shall have been issued shall be responsible

for the safe keeping of the same, and shall not lend, enable, let or

allow any other person to have, hold, use or display such certificate or

pocket card; and any person so parting with such a license certificate

or pocket card or displaying the same without authority, or who shall

display any license certificate or pocket card purporting to authorize

the holder thereof to act as a private investigator, bail enforcement

agent or watch, guard or patrol agency, unless the same shall have been

duly issued pursuant to the provisions of this article, shall be guilty

of a misdemeanor. Failure to comply with the provisions of this section

shall be sufficient cause for revocation of such license, and all such

certificates or pocket cards shall be returned to the department of

state within seventy-two hours after the holder thereof has received

notice in writing of the expiration or revocation of such license. It

shall be unlawful for a holder of a license or anyone else to

distribute, possess, use or display any license certificate, pocket

card, badge, shield or any other indicia of a license status pursuant to

this article except as set forth in this article. Any person who is a

licensee hereunder or an officer or authorized employee of any other

person, firm, limited liability company or corporation, whether or not

licensed hereunder, while performing the services of a watchman, guard

or private patrolman, may wear on his outer clothing a rectangular metal

or woven insignia approved by the department of state, which insignia

shall not be larger than three inches high nor four inches wide with an

inscription thereon containing the word "watchman", "guard", "patrol" or

"special service" and the name of such licensee or employer. It shall be

unlawful for any employer, whether or not licensed hereunder, to wear or

distribute to his, their or its employees any employment identification

except as authorized in this article and approved by the secretary of

state. Any person violating any provision of this section shall be

guilty of a misdemeanor.