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Texas Statutes (Last Updated: January 4, 2014) |
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HEALTH AND SAFETY CODE |
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Title 6. FOOD, DRUGS, ALCOHOL, AND HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES |
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Subtitle A. FOOD AND DRUG HEALTH REGULATIONS |
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Chapter 433. TEXAS MEAT AND POULTRY INSPECTION ACT |
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Subchapter C. LABELING AND OTHER STANDARDS |
Sec. 433.045. PROTECTION OF OFFICIAL DEVICE, MARK, AND CERTIFICATE
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A person may not:
(1) cast, print, lithograph, or make in any other manner, except as authorized by the commissioner:
(A) a device containing or label bearing an official mark or a simulation of an official mark; or
(B) a form of official certificate or simulation of an official certificate;
(2) forge an official device, mark, or certificate;
(3) without the commissioner's authorization, use, alter, detach, deface, or destroy an official device, mark, or certificate or use a simulation of an official device, mark, or certificate;
(4) detach, deface, destroy, or fail to use an official device, mark, or certificate, in violation of a rule of the commissioner;
(5) knowingly possess, without promptly notifying the commissioner or the commissioner's representative:
(A) an official device;
(B) a counterfeit, simulated, forged, or improperly altered official certificate; or
(C) a device, label, animal carcass, or part or product of an animal carcass, bearing a counterfeit, simulated, forged, or improperly altered official mark;
(6) knowingly make a false statement in a shipper's certificate or other certificate provided for by rule of the commissioner; or
(7) knowingly represent that an article has been inspected and passed, when it has not, or is exempted, when it is not.