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. (a) Any licensee or officer, director, partner, or manager
of a licensee may divulge to any law enforcement officer or district
attorney, or to his or her representative, any information he or she
may acquire as to any criminal offense, but he or she shall not
divulge to any other person, except as he or she may be required by
law to do so, any information acquired by him or her except at the
direction of the employer or client for whom the information was
obtained.
(b) No licensee or officer, director, partner, manager, or
employee of a licensee shall knowingly make any false report to his
or her employer or client for whom information was being obtained.
(c) No written report shall be submitted to a client except by the
licensee, qualifying manager, or a person authorized by one or
either of them, and such person submitting the report shall exercise
diligence in ascertaining whether or not the facts and information in
such a report are true and correct.
(d) No licensee, or officer, director, partner, manager, or
employee of a licensee shall use a badge in connection with the
official activities of the licensee's business.
(e) No licensee, or officer, director, partner, manager, or
employee of a licensee, shall use a title, or wear a uniform, or use
an insignia, or use an identification card, or make any statement
with the intent to give an impression that he or she is connected in
any way with the federal government, a state government, or any
political subdivision of a state government.
(f) No licensee, or officer, director, partner, manager, or
employee of a licensee, shall enter any private building or portion
thereof without the consent of the owner or of the person in legal
possession thereof.
(g) No licensee shall appear as an assignee party in any
proceeding involving claim and delivery, replevin, or other
possessory action, action to foreclose a chattel mortgage, mechanic's
lien, materialman's lien, or any other lien.
(h) No licensee shall permit an employee or agent in his or her
own name to advertise, engage clients, furnish reports, or present
bills to clients, or in any manner whatever to conduct business for
which a license is required under this chapter. All business of the
licensee shall be conducted in the name of and under the control of
the licensee.
(i) No licensee acting as an independent automobile damage
appraiser or adjuster or as an automobile insurance claims adjuster,
appraiser or representative shall receive any financial benefit from
an automobile repair facility. "Financial benefit" means the
receiving of any commission or gratuity, discount on repair costs,
free repairs, employment by a repair facility, or possession of more
than 3 percent direct ownership in an automobile repair facility
located in this state.