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Cal. Food & Agric. Code § 18847

Violations

Known as the California Meat and Poultry Inspection Act

The act spans §§ 18650–18935 (111 sections).

Added by Stats. 1970, Ch. 1385.

It is unlawful for any person to do any of the following:

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

(b) Without authorization from the director to use any official device, mark, or certificate, or simulation thereof, or alter, detach, deface, or destroy any official device, mark, or certificate.

(c) Contrary to the regulations of the director, fail to use, or to detach, deface, or destroy any official device, mark, or certificate.

(d) Knowingly possess, without promptly notifying the director or his 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, including any poultry, or part or product thereof, bearing any counterfeit, simulated, forged, or improperly altered official mark.

(e) Knowingly make any false statement in any shipper’s certificate or other nonofficial or official certificate provided for in the regulations of the director.

(f) Knowingly represent that any article has been inspected and passed, or exempted, under this chapter when, in fact, it has, respectively, not been so inspected and passed, or exempted.

Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.