1. No brand manufacturer, printer, or other person shall cast, print, lithograph, or otherwise make any device containing any official mark or simulation thereof, or any label bearing any such mark or simulation, or any form of official certificate or simulation thereof, except as authorized by the secretary.

Terms Used In Iowa Code 189A.16

  • following: when used by way of reference to a chapter or other part of a statute mean the next preceding or next following chapter or other part. See Iowa Code 4.1
  • Label: means a display of written, printed, or graphic matter upon any article or the immediate container, not including package liners, of any article. See Iowa Code 189A.2
  • Official certificate: means any certificate prescribed by regulations of the secretary for issuance by an inspector or other person performing official functions under this chapter. See Iowa Code 189A.2
  • Official device: means any device prescribed or authorized by the secretary for use in applying any official mark. See Iowa Code 189A.2
  • Official mark: means the official inspection legend or any other symbol prescribed by regulations of the secretary to identify the status of any article or livestock or poultry under this chapter. See Iowa Code 189A.2
  • Person: includes any individual, partnership, corporation, association, or other business unit, and any officer, agent, or employee thereof. See Iowa Code 189A.2
  • Poultry: means any domesticated bird, whether live or dead. See Iowa Code 189A.2
 2. No person shall do any of the following:

 a. Forge any official device, mark, or certificate.
 b. Without authorization from the secretary, 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 prescribed by the secretary, fail to use, or to detach, deface, or destroy any official device, mark, or certificate.
 d. Knowingly possess, without promptly notifying the secretary or the secretary’s 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 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 prescribed by the secretary.
 f. Knowingly represent that any article has been inspected and passed, or exempted, under this chapter when it has not been so inspected and passed, or exempted.
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