2014 Delaware Code
Title 24 - Professions and Occupations
CHAPTER 13. PRIVATE INVESTIGATORS AND PRIVATE SECURITY AGENCIES
§ 1333. Identification card; wearing of badges or shields; offenses; surrender of card; penalty

(a) For the purpose of identification of persons engaged in the conduct of a private detective business as private detective or private investigator, each such person shall carry and show when requested an identification card, which shall be issued by the Superintendent at the time of initial issuance of license. For the purpose of identification of employees of a private detective business, upon examination of employee's statement and fingerprint cards, the Superintendent shall furnish an employee's identification card.

(b) No person licensed under this chapter or the officers, directors, employees, operators or agents thereof shall wear, carry or accept any badge or shield purporting to indicate that such person is a private detective or investigator or connected with a private detective business, but any such person, officer, director, employee, operator or agent who is acting as a guard or performs any such service may, while in uniform and while on the premises of the employer of the licensee where the guard is so acting, wear a badge or shield inscribed with the license holder's name and the word "guard" or "special guard."

(c) No person licensed under this chapter shall issue identification cards to any person other than a bona fide employee or shall sell, issue, rent, loan or distribute badges or membership cards indicating that the holder thereof is a private detective or investigator or is engaged in the private detective business to any person or persons other than those lawfully entitled to such identification cards.

(d) Any person to whom an identification card has been issued in accordance with this chapter, shall surrender the identification card to the Board:

(1) Upon termination of employment; or

(2) Upon suspension or revocation by the Board.

(e) Whoever violates this section shall be fined not more than $50.

24 Del. C. 1953, § 1314; 50 Del. Laws, c. 301, § 1; 63 Del. Laws, c. 47, §§ 10, 11; 65 Del. Laws, c. 376, § 4; 69 Del. Laws, c. 285, § 6; 70 Del. Laws, c. 186, § 1.;