20-60-214. Prohibited acts.

20-60-214. Prohibited acts. The following acts or the causing thereof within this state are prohibited: (1) The processing for, or the sale or offering for sale, transportation, or delivery or receiving for transportation, in intrastate commerce, of any livestock carcass or part thereof, or meat food product unless the article has been inspected for wholesomeness and unless the article and its shipping container and immediate container, if any, are marked in accordance with the requirements under this subchapter or the Federal Meat Inspection Act; (2) The sale or other disposition for human food of any livestock carcass or part thereof or meat food product which has been inspected and declared to be unwholesome or adulterated under this subchapter; (3) Falsely making or issuing, altering, forging, simulating, counterfeiting, or using without proper authority any official inspection certificate, memorandum, mark, or other identification, or device for making a mark or identification, used in connection with inspection under this subchapter; or causing, procuring, aiding, assisting in, or being a party to false making, issuing, altering, forging, simulating, counterfeiting, or unauthorized use; or knowingly possessing, without promptly notifying the Secretary of the Department of Health or his or her representative, uttering, publishing, or using as true, or causing to be uttered, published, or used as true, any falsely made or issued, altered, forged, simulated, or counterfeited official inspection certificate, memorandum, mark, or other identification, or device for making a mark or identification; or representing that any article has been officially inspected under the authority of this subchapter when the article has in fact not been so inspected; or knowingly making any false representation in any certificate prescribed by the secretary in rules under this subchapter or any form resembling the certificate; (4) Using in intrastate commerce any false or misleading advertising with respect to meat or meat products; (5) Using in intrastate commerce any false or misleading label on any livestock carcass or part thereof, or meat food product; (6) The use of any container bearing an official inspection mark except for the article in the original form in which it was inspected and covered by the mark unless the mark is removed, obliterated, or otherwise destroyed; (7) The refusal to permit access by any authorized representative of the secretary at all reasonable times to the premises of an establishment in this state at which livestock are slaughtered or the carcasses or parts thereof or meat food products are processed for intrastate commerce upon presentation of appropriate credentials; (8) The refusal to permit access to and the copying of any record as authorized by § 20-60-215; (9) The using by any person to his or her own advantage, or revealing, other than to the authorized representatives of any government agency in their official capacity, or to the courts when relevant in any judicial proceeding, any information acquired under the authority of this subchapter, concerning any matter which as a trade secret is entitled to protection; (10) Delivering, receiving, transporting, selling, or offering for sale or transportation in intrastate commerce for human consumption any livestock carcass or part thereof or meat food product which has been processed in violation of any requirements under this subchapter except as may be authorized by and pursuant to rules prescribed by the secretary; (11) Delivering, receiving, transporting, selling, or offering for sale or transportation in intrastate commerce any livestock carcass, or part thereof, or meat food product which is exempted under § 20-60-204, is unwholesome or adulterated, and is intended for human consumption; and (12) Applying to any livestock carcass, or part thereof, or meat food product, or any container thereof, any official inspection mark or label required under this subchapter except by or under the supervision of an inspector.