The following acts or conduct are unlawful:

Terms Used In Arizona Laws 3-733

  • Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
  • Carton: means an egg carton as used in commercial practice in the United States. See Arizona Laws 3-701
  • Case: means a standard thirty-dozen egg case as used in commercial practice in the United States. See Arizona Laws 3-701
  • Container: means any box, one-half case, basket, flat or other receptacle, excluding a carton and a case. See Arizona Laws 3-701
  • Deceptive: means any arrangement of the contents of any case, container, subcontainer, lot, load or display in which the eggs in the outer layer or in any portion exposed to view are in grade, size, condition or any other respect so superior to those in the interior or unexposed portion as to materially misrepresent the contents or any part of the contents as to size, grade, condition or any other respects. See Arizona Laws 3-701
  • Department: means the Arizona department of agriculture. See Arizona Laws 3-101
  • Eggs: means eggs that are in the shell and that are from chickens, turkeys, ducks, geese or any other species of fowl. See Arizona Laws 3-701
  • Grade: means classified as to quality and applies to a dozen, case, lot or load of eggs. See Arizona Laws 3-701
  • Size: means classified as to weight. See Arizona Laws 3-701
  • Subcontainer: means a container that is used within another container. See Arizona Laws 3-701
  • Writing: includes printing. See Arizona Laws 1-215

1. Failure to comply with a lawful order of the department, or of a court, in a proceeding under the provisions of this article.

2. Refusal to submit eggs or egg products or a case, carton, container, subcontainer, lot, load or display of eggs to inspection or to refuse to stop, at the request of an authorized representative of the department, any vehicle transporting eggs or egg products.

3. Failure to appear in court at the time and place designated in a written promise given after arrest in accordance with the provisions of this article, regardless of the disposition of the offense originally charged.

4. Making a statement, representation or assertion in writing, or by any other manner or means whatever, concerning the grade, size, weight, condition of or any other matter relating to advertising and selling eggs and egg products which is false, deceptive or misleading in any particular.

5. Furnishing an invoice, statement or bill showing the size, grade, representation of freshness or any other description of eggs or egg products which is false, deceptive or misleading in any particular.