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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>68348</law_id><section_number>3.2-5408</section_number><catch_line>Prohibitions against unauthorized use of any official marks</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="3.2">Agriculture, Animal Care, and Food</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="IV">Food and Drink; Weights and Measures</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="54">Slaughterhouses, Meat, and Dressed Poultry</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="2">Inspection, Slaughter, and Official Marks</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> No brand manufacturer, printer, or other person shall cast, print, lithograph, or otherwise make any device containing any <span class="dictionary">official mark</span> or simulation thereof, or any <span class="dictionary">label</span> bearing any such mark or simulation, or any form of <span class="dictionary">official certificate</span> or simulation thereof, except as authorized by the <span class="dictionary">Commissioner</span>. <a id="paragraph-247299" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/3.2-5408/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> No person shall: <a id="paragraph-247300" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/3.2-5408/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B1" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">1.</span> Forge any <span class="dictionary">official device</span>, mark, or certificate; <a id="paragraph-247301" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/3.2-5408/#B1"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B2" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">2.</span> Without authorization from the <span class="dictionary">Commissioner</span>, use any <span class="dictionary">official device</span>, mark, or certificate, or simulation thereof, or alter, detach, deface, or destroy any <span class="dictionary">official device</span>, mark, or certificate; <a id="paragraph-247302" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/3.2-5408/#B2"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B3" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">3.</span> Contrary to the regulations prescribed by the <span class="dictionary">Board</span>, fail to use, or to detach, deface, or destroy any <span class="dictionary">official device</span>, mark, or certificate; <a id="paragraph-247303" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/3.2-5408/#B3"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B4" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">4.</span> Knowingly possess, without promptly notifying the <span class="dictionary">Commissioner</span> any <span class="dictionary">official device</span> or any counterfeit, simulated, forged, or improperly altered <span class="dictionary">official certificate</span> or any device or <span class="dictionary">label</span> or any carcass of any animal (including <span class="dictionary">poultry</span>), or part or product thereof, bearing any counterfeit, simulated, forged, or improperly altered <span class="dictionary">official mark</span>; <a id="paragraph-247304" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/3.2-5408/#B4"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B5" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">5.</span> Knowingly make any false statement in any shipper&#x2019;s certificate or other nonofficial or <span class="dictionary">official certificate</span> provided for in the regulations prescribed by the <span class="dictionary">Board</span>; or <a id="paragraph-247305" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/3.2-5408/#B5"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B6" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">6.</span> Knowingly represent that any article has been inspected and passed, or exempted, under this article when, in <span class="dictionary">fact</span>, it has, respectively, not been so inspected and passed, or exempted. <a id="paragraph-247306" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/3.2-5408/#B6"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>1970, c. 290, &#xA7; 3.1-884.23; 2008, c. 860.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
