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[CITE: 21USC611]

 
                        TITLE 21--FOOD AND DRUGS
 
                       CHAPTER 12--MEAT INSPECTION
 
   SUBCHAPTER I--INSPECTION REQUIREMENTS; ADULTERATION AND MISBRANDING
 
Sec. 611. Devices, marks, labels, and certificates; simulations


(a) Devices to be made under authorization of Secretary

    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 Secretary.

(b) Other misconduct

    No person, firm, or corporation shall--
        (1) forge any official device, mark, or certificate;
        (2) without authorization from the Secretary use any official 
    device, mark, or certificate, or simulation thereof, or alter, 
    detach, deface, or destroy any official device, mark, or 
    certificate;
        (3) contrary to the regulations prescribed by the Secretary, 
    fail to use, or to detach, deface, or destroy any official device, 
    mark, or certificate;
        (4) knowingly possess, without promptly notifying the Secretary 
    or his representative, any official device or any counterfeit, 
    simulated, forged, or improperly altered official certificate or any 
    device or label or any carcass of any animal, or 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 Secretary; or
        (6) knowingly represent that any article has been inspected and 
    passed, or exempted, under this chapter when, in fact, it has, 
    respectively, not been so inspected and passed, or exempted.

(Mar. 4, 1907, ch. 2907, title I, Sec. 11, formerly 9th par., 34 Stat. 
1263; renumbered Sec. 11 and amended Pub. L. 90-201, Secs. 1, 8, Dec. 
15, 1967, 81 Stat. 584, 589.)

                          Codification

    Section was formerly classified to section 79 of this title.


                               Amendments

    1967--Pub. L. 90-201, Sec. 8, clarified application to brand 
manufacturers and printers of existing prohibition against 
counterfeiting official marks, labels or certificates, the provisions 
with respect to forgery, unauthorized use or failure to use official 
marks, or similar items, and similar offenses, and existing prohibitions 
with respect to false statements in official or nonofficial 
certificates, and added restriction upon possession of official devices, 
or devices, labels, meat, or other articles bearing counterfeit official 
marks, counterfeit official certificates, or similar items, and 
prohibition against false representations.


                    Effective Date of 1967 Amendment

    Amendment by Pub. L. 90-201 effective Dec. 15, 1967, except that 
with respect to equines (other than horses) and their carcasses and 
parts thereof, meat, and meat food products thereof, amendment effective 
upon expiration of sixty days after Dec. 15, 1967, see section 20(b) of 
Pub. L. 90-201, set out as an Effective Date note under section 601 of 
this title.
