Marking to be Authorized; Practices Prohibited

Marking to be Authorized; Practices Prohibited. (a) No brand manufacturer, printer, or other person, firm or corporation 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 director. (b) No person shall: (1) Forge any official device, mark, or certificate; (2) Use any official device, mark, or certificate, or simulation thereof, or alter, detach, deface, or destroy any official device, mark or certificate without authorization from the director; (3) Fail to use, or to detach, deface, or destroy any official device, mark or certificate contrary to the regulations prescribed by the director; (4) Knowingly possess, without promptly notifying the director or the director’s representative, any official device or any counterfeit, simulated, forged, or improperly altered official certificate of any device or label, or any carcass of any animal, or any part or product thereof bearing any counterfeit, simulated, forged, or improperly altered official mark; (5) Knowingly make any false statement in any shipper’s certificate or other nonofficial or official certificate provided for in the regulations prescribed by the director; or (6) Knowingly represent that any article has been inspected and passed, or exempted, under this chapter when, in fact, it has not been so inspected and passed, or exempted. Source: 25 TTC § 61. Commission Comment: With respect to the reference to the “director” of the Department of Natural Resources, see Executive Order 94-3 (effective August 23, 1994), reorganizing the executive branch, changing agency names and official titles, and effecting other changes, set forth in the Commission comment to 1 CMC § 2001.