TITLE 4: ECONOMIC RESOURCES DIVISION 5: BUSINESS REGULATION
§ 54007. Violations. (a) It shall be unlawful for any business to place a CNMI Product Seal on a product if the business does not have a current permit allowing the product to have such a seal. (b) It shall be unlawful for any business establishment to state or imply in an advertisement or display of any type, including packaging that a manufactured product is made in the CNMI unless the product has a CNMI Product Seal on it or the product was manufactured in the CNMI. (c) It shall be unlawful for persons or any retail store, wholesaler, manufacturer, importer, distributor or business establishment to sell a product that has the words “Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), Rota, Tinian, Saipan or any island to the north of Saipan,” “Chamorro,” or “Carolinian,” or a derivation of such words on the product if such product was not manufactured in the CNMI, unless the place where the product was manufactured is clearly labeled on the product. Source: PL 20-89 §3(107) (Feb. 18, 2019), modified. Commission Comment: The Commission changed the quotation marks from single to double, added a comma after “Carolinian,” and placed the commas inside the quotation marks pursuant to 1 CMC § 3806(g).