Section 114 – Unauthorized use or possession of official devices, labels, marks, or certificates — False statements, misrepresentations, and trade secrets.

• (1) A person may not cast, print, lithograph, or make any device or label containing or bearing any official mark or simulation of a mark, or any form or simulation of an official certificate, unless authorized by the commissioner.

• (2) A person may not:
  • (a) forge any official device, mark, or certificate;
  • (b) use any official device, mark, or certificate without the authorization of the commissioner;
  • (c) alter, detach, deface, or destroy any official device, mark, or certificate;
  • (d) fail to use, detach, deface, or destroy any official device, mark, or certificate as required by this chapter;
  • (e) knowingly possess any of the following, if it bears any unauthorized, counterfeit, simulated, forged, or altered official mark:
    • (i) an official device;
    • (ii) a counterfeit, simulated, forged, or altered official certificate;
    • (iii) a device;
    • (iv) a label;
    • (v) a carcass of any animal, including poultry; or
    • (vi) a part or product of any animal, including poultry;
  • (f) knowingly make any false statement in any shipper’s certificate, or nonofficial or official certificate;
  • (g) knowingly represent that any meat or poultry product has been inspected and approved, or exempted, under this chapter when, in fact, it has not; or
  • (h) use to the person’s advantage or reveal any information acquired under the authority of this chapter relating to any matter entitled to protection as a trade secret unless the information is:
    • (i) revealed to an authorized government representative; or
    • (ii) ordered by a court in a judicial proceeding.

Renumbered and Amended by Chapter 345, 2017 General Session