Legal question re: security guards' uniform requirements

Las Vegan · Nov 10, 2015

28kfps said:
I am always amazed how many will give up their ID to the private property uniformed security.

Ditto.

DVC · Nov 19, 2015

Grapeshot said:
While there may be cases where wearing part of a military uniform was deemed illegal and prosecuted, I suspect this offense is largely overlooked.

There is no law prohibiting you from wearing part of a uniform. The law prohibits you from wearing items which specifically identify you as military when you are not entitled to them, and generally this WILL be overlooked unless there is apparent intent to deceive. This would be an additional charge piled on following an arrest for, say, fraud.

Grapeshot · Nov 20, 2015

DVC said:
There is no law prohibiting you from wearing part of a uniform. The law prohibits you from wearing items which specifically identify you as military when you are not entitled to them, and generally this WILL be overlooked unless there is apparent intent to deceive. This would be an additional charge piled on following an arrest for, say, fraud.

Au contraire, there is indeed such a law, actually laws if you wish to dig deeper.

Title 10, Subtitle A, Part II, Ch 45 covers the wear of the uniform and states:

Sec. 771. Unauthorized wearing prohibited
Except as otherwise provided by law, no person except a member of the Army, Navy, Air Force, or Marine Corps, as the case may be, may wear -
(1) the uniform, or a distinctive part of the uniform, of the Army, Navy, Air Force, or Marine Corps; or
(2) a uniform any part of which is similar to a distinctive part of the uniform of the Army, Navy, Air Force, or Marine Corps.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/5/31/341273/-

There is Also the Stolen_Valor_Act_of_2013

Legal question re: security guards' uniform requirements

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