Sec. 16. (a) A brand manufacturer, printer, or other person may not cast, print, lithograph, or otherwise make:
(1) a device containing an official mark or a simulation of an official mark or a label bearing the mark or simulation; or
(2) any form of official certificate or simulation of an official certificate;
except as authorized by the board.
(b) A person may not do any of the following:
(1) Forge an official device, mark, or certificate.
(2) Use an official device, mark, certificate, or a simulation of an official device, mark, or certificate or alter, detach, deface, or destroy an official device, mark, or certificate without authorization from the board.
(3) Contrary to the rules adopted by the board, fail to use or detach, deface, or destroy an official device, mark, or certificate.
(4) Knowingly possess, without promptly notifying the state veterinarian or the state veterinarian's representative, any of the following:
(A) An official device.
(B) A counterfeit, simulated, forged, or improperly altered official certificate.
(C) A device or label on a carcass of an animal, including poultry, or part or product of a carcass, bearing a counterfeit, simulated, forged, or improperly altered official mark.
(5) Knowingly make a false statement in a shipper's certificate or other nonofficial or official certificate provided for in the rules adopted by the board.
(6) Knowingly represent that an article has been inspected and passed or exempted under this chapter when the article has not been inspected and passed or exempted.
[Pre-2008 Recodification Citation: 15-2.1-24-18.]
As added by P.L.2-2008, SEC.8.
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