(a) No brand manufacturer, printer, or other person shall cast, print, lithograph, or otherwise make any device containing any official mark, any label bearing any such mark, any form of official certificate, or simulation thereof, except as authorized by the board.
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Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes 159-26

  • Board: means the board of agriculture of the State. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 159-3
  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • Intrastate commerce: means commerce within the State. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 159-3
  • Label: means a display of written, printed, or graphic matter upon the immediate container (not including package liners) of any meat or meat products, or other products. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 159-3
  • Meat or meat products: means any product capable of use as human food which is made wholly or in part from any meat or other portions of the carcass of any cattle, sheep, swine, or goats, excepting products which contain meat or other portions of the carcasses only in a relatively small proportion or historically have not been considered by consumers as products of the meat food industry, and which are exempted from the definition as meat products by the board under the conditions as it may prescribe to assure that the meat or other portions of the carcasses contained in the products are not adulterated and that the products are not represented as meat products. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 159-3
  • Official certificate: means any certificate prescribed by the board for issuance by veterinarians, inspectors, or other persons performing official functions under this chapter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 159-3
  • Official device: means any device described or authorized by the board for use in applying any official mark. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 159-3
  • Official mark: means the official inspection legend or any other symbol prescribed by the board to identify the status of any meat or meat products or animal under this chapter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 159-3
  • Person: means any individual, firm, corporation, association, or partnership, or any organized group of persons whether incorporated or not. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 159-3
(b) No person, firm, or corporation 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 board.
(3) Fail to use, or to detach, deface, or destroy any official device, mark, or certificate contrary to the regulations prescribed by the board.
(4) Knowingly possess, without promptly notifying the board or its 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 board.
(6) Knowingly represent that any meat or meat products have been inspected and passed, or exempted, under this chapter when, in fact, it has, respectively not been so inspected and passed, or exempted.
(c) No person shall sell, transport, offer for sale or transportation, or receive for transportation, in intrastate commerce, any carcasses of horses, mules, or other equines or parts of such carcasses, or the meat or meat products thereof, unless they are plainly and conspicuously marked or labeled or otherwise identified as prescribed by the board to show the kinds of animals from which they were derived. When required by the board with respect to establishments at which inspection is maintained under this chapter, the animals and their carcasses, parts thereof, meat or meat products shall be prepared in establishments separate from those in which cattle, sheep, swine, or goats are slaughtered or their carcasses, parts thereof, meats or meat products are prepared.

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