(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.

Terms Used In Utah Code 4-32-114

  • Animal: means a domesticated or captive mammalian or avian species. See Utah Code 4-32-105
  • Commissioner: includes a person authorized by the commissioner to carry out the provisions of this chapter. See Utah Code 4-32-105
  • Label: means a display of printed or graphic matter upon any meat or poultry product or the immediate container, not including package liners, of any such product. See Utah Code 4-32-105
  • Meat: means the edible muscle, and other edible parts, of an animal, including edible:
(a) skeletal muscle;
(b) organs;
(c) muscle found in the tongue, diaphragm, heart, or esophagus; and
(d) fat, bone, skin, sinew, nerve, or blood vessel that normally accompanies meat and is not ordinarily removed in processing. See Utah Code 4-32-105
  • Official certificate: means any certificate prescribed by rules of the department for issuance by an inspector or other person performing official functions under this chapter. See Utah Code 4-32-105
  • Official device: means a device prescribed or authorized by the commissioner for use in applying an official mark. See Utah Code 4-32-105
  • Official mark: means the official legend or other symbol prescribed by rules of the department to identify the status of an animal carcass or meat or poultry product under this chapter. See Utah Code 4-32-105
  • Person: means a natural person or individual, corporation, organization, or other legal entity. See Utah Code 4-1-109
  • Poultry: means any domesticated bird, whether living or dead. See Utah Code 4-32-105
  • Poultry product: means any product capable of use as human food that is made wholly or in part from any poultry carcass, excepting products that contain poultry ingredients in relatively small proportion or that historically have not been considered by consumers as products of the poultry food industry, and that are exempted from definition as a poultry product by the commissioner. See Utah Code 4-32-105
    • (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

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