4-32-12.   Unauthorized use or possession of official devices, labels, marks, or certificates -- False statements, misrepresentations, and trade secrets.
     (1) No person shall 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) No person shall:
     (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 livestock or poultry product has been inspected and approved, or exempted, under this chapter when, in fact, it has not; or
     (h) use to his 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.

Amended by Chapter 144, 1990 General Session
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