Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 508 – Unlawful acts
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It is unlawful: [PL 1965, c. 65 (NEW).]
1. Alteration. For any person to detach, alter, deface or destroy, in whole or in part, any label or labeling provided for in this subchapter or the rules and regulations promulgated hereunder, or to add any substance to, or take any substance from a hazardous substance in a manner that may defeat the purposes of this subchapter;
[PL 1965, c. 65 (NEW).]
Terms Used In Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 508
- Commissioner: means the Commissioner of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry and the commissioner's agents. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 502
- Department: means the Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 502
- Hazardous substance: means any substance or mixture of substances which is toxic, corrosive, an irritant, strong sensitizer, flammable, or which generates pressure through decomposition, heat or other means and which may cause substantial personal injury or illness during any customary or reasonable anticipated handling or use including reasonably foreseeable ingestion by children and also means any radioactive substance, if, with respect to such substance as used in a particular class of article or as packaged, the commissioner determines by regulation that the substance is sufficiently hazardous to require labeling in accordance with this subchapter in order to protect the public health. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 502
- Label: means a display of written, printed or graphic matter upon or attached to the immediate package or container of any substance; and a requirement made by or under authority of this subchapter that any word, statement or other information appear on the label shall not be considered to be complied with unless such word, statement or other information also appears on the outside container or wrapper, if any there be, unless it is easily legible through the outside container or wrapper, and on all accompanying literature where there are directions for use, written or otherwise. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 502
- misbranded: as used in this chapter or chapter 103 applies to all articles of commercial feeding stuff, commercial fertilizer or food, the package or label of which bears any statement, design or device regarding such article, or the ingredients or substances contained therein, that is false or misleading in any particular or that is falsely branded in any particular. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 484
- misbranded package of a hazardous substance: means a hazardous substance in a container intended or suitable for household use unless the product bears a label with the information specified in section 507, except as otherwise provided by or pursuant to this subchapter. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 502
- Person: means and includes any corporation, association, copartnership or one or more individuals. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 502
- Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
- United States: includes territories and the District of Columbia. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72
2. Use of information. For any person to use for the person’s own advantage or to reveal, other than to the commissioner, or officials or employees of the commissioner or officials or employees of the United States Department of Agriculture, or other federal agencies, or to the courts in response to a subpoena, or to physicians, and in emergencies to pharmacists and other qualified persons for use in the preparation of antidotes, in accordance with such directions as the commissioner may prescribe, any information relative to formulas of products acquired by authority of this subchapter;
[RR 2021, c. 1, Pt. B, §84 (COR).]
3. Interference. For any person to oppose or interfere in any way with the commissioner or the commissioner’s duly authorized agents in carrying out the duties imposed by this subchapter;
[RR 2021, c. 1, Pt. B, §85 (COR).]
4. False guaranty. For any person to give a guaranty which is false;
[PL 1979, c. 541, Pt. A, §47 (AMD).]
5. Manufacture. For any person to manufacture a misbranded package of a hazardous substance within this State;
[PL 1979, c. 541, Pt. A, §47 (AMD).]
6. Delivery. For any person to introduce or deliver for introduction into commerce of any misbranded package of a hazardous substance; or
[PL 1979, c. 541, Pt. A, §47 (AMD).]
7. Reused food or drugs. To introduce or deliver for introduction into commerce, or the receipt in commerce and subsequent delivery or proffered delivery for pay or otherwise, of a hazardous substance in a reused food, drug or cosmetic container or in a container that, though not a reused container, is identifiable as a food, drug or cosmetic container by its labeling or other identification. The reuse of a food, drug or cosmetic container as a container for a hazardous substance is an act that results in the hazardous substance being a misbranded package. For the purposes of this subsection and section 509, “drug” has the same meaning as defined in Title 32, section 13702?A, subsection 11.
[PL 2007, c. 695, Pt. B, §1 (AMD).]
SECTION HISTORY
PL 1965, c. 65 (NEW). PL 1979, c. 541, §A47 (AMD). PL 2005, c. 512, §26 (AMD). PL 2007, c. 695, Pt. B, §1 (AMD). RR 2021, c. 1, Pt. B, §§84, 85 (COR).