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[§159-26]  Forgery of mark, brand, or label


Published: 2015

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     [§159-26]  Forgery of mark, brand, or label. 

(a)  No brand manufacturer, printer, or other person shall cast, print,

lithograph, or otherwise make any device containing any official mark, any

label bearing any such mark, any form of official certificate, or simulation

thereof, except as authorized by the board.

     (b)  No person, firm, or corporation shall:

     (1)  Forge any official device, mark, or certificate.

     (2)  Use any official device, mark, or certificate, or

simulation thereof, or alter, detach, deface, or destroy any official device,

mark, or certificate without authorization from the board.

     (3)  Fail to use, or to detach, deface, or destroy any

official device, mark, or certificate contrary to the regulations prescribed by

the board.

     (4)  Knowingly possess, without promptly notifying the

board or its representative, any official device or any counterfeit, simulated,

forged, or improperly altered official certificate or any device or label or

any carcass of any animal, or part or product thereof, bearing any counterfeit,

simulated, forged, or improperly altered official mark.

     (5)  Knowingly make any false statement in any

shipper's certificate or other nonofficial or official certificate provided for

in the regulations prescribed by the board.

     (6)  Knowingly represent that any meat or meat

products have been inspected and passed, or exempted, under this chapter when,

in fact, it has, respectively not been so inspected and passed, or exempted.

     (c)  No person shall sell, transport, offer for

sale or transportation, or receive for transportation, in intrastate commerce,

any carcasses of horses, mules, or other equines or parts of such carcasses, or

the meat or meat products thereof, unless they are plainly and conspicuously

marked or labeled or otherwise identified as prescribed by the board to show

the kinds of animals from which they were derived.  When required by the board

with respect to establishments at which inspection is maintained under this

chapter, the animals and their carcasses, parts thereof, meat or meat products

shall be prepared in establishments separate from those in which cattle, sheep,

swine, or goats are slaughtered or their carcasses, parts thereof, meats or

meat products are prepared. [L 1969, c 214, pt of §1]