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2015 Utah Code
Title 4 - Utah Agricultural Code
Chapter 32 - Utah Meat and Poultry Products Inspection and Licensing Act
Section 12 - Unauthorized use or possession of official devices, labels, marks, or certificates -- False statements, misrepresentations, and trade secrets.

UT Code § 4-32-12 (2015) What's This?
4-32-12. Unauthorized use or possession of official devices, labels, marks, or certificates -- False statements, misrepresentations, and trade secrets.
  • (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.
  • (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.


Amended by Chapter 242, 2010 General Session

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