Section 80. License certificates, pocket cards or badges  


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  • 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.