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Ordinance

Article XI – Identification Cards and Parking Permits

Section 1. Possession, Display, or Allowing Use

No person shall possess or display any University identification card (whether physical, electronic or otherwise) that is altered, counterfeited, forged, or duplicated or that has been issued to another person. No person shall possess or display any University parking permit that is altered, fraudulent, or that has been obtained in violation of University policy. No person, having been issued a valid University identification card, shall allow another person to use the identification to make entry into University events. University staff handling University identification cards or parking permits as a requirement of their University employment are exempt from this section where they are handling identification cards or parking permits in the performance of their official duties.

Section 2. Manufacture, Transfer, Sell, or Distribute

No person shall manufacture, transfer, sell, or distribute in any manner any University identification (whether physical, electronic or otherwise) card or University parking permit or any other designation that represents the identification card or parking permit as the official identification card or parking permit of the University. University staff manufacturing, transferring, selling, or distributing University identification cards or parking permits as a requirement of their University employment are exempt from this section where they are handling identification cards or parking permits in the performance of their official duties. This section does not prohibit the transfer of parking permits, permitted by University policy, that have been validly issued by the Business and Finance Division of the University or other authorized University department.

Section 3. False State Identification

No person shall, while on University property or in University buildings or in University buses, passenger vans or other University vehicles, engage in the following disorderly conduct:

  1. Have in their possession any altered, counterfeited, forged, or duplicated State of Michigan personal identification card (PID), a Washtenaw County PID, or a PID of another state substantially corresponding to a State of Michigan PID.

  2. Loan to another person, or knowingly permit the use of, by one not entitled to its use, a State of Michigan PID, a Washtenaw County PID, or a PID of another state substantially corresponding to a State of Michigan PID.

  3. Display or represent as one’s own any State of Michigan PID issued to another, a Washtenaw County PID issued to another, or a PID of another state substantially corresponding to a State of Michigan PID issued to another person.

Section 4. Violation Penalty

A violation of this Article XI Section 1 shall constitute a civil infraction and shall be punishable by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars. A person who violates this Article XI Section 2 and Section 3 is guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction, punishable by imprisonment not to exceed sixty days, and/or a fine of not more than two hundred fifty dollars or both.