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C.__Detach, deface, destroy or fail to use an official device, | | mark or certificate; |
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| | | D.__Without promptly notifying the commissioner or the | | commissioner's representative, possess an official device; a | | counterfeit, simulated, forged or altered official | | certificate; or a device or label or a carcass of an animal | | or a part or product of an animal that bears a counterfeit, | | simulated, forged or altered official mark; |
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| | | E.__Make a false statement in a shipper's certificate or | | other certificate provided for in the rules established by | | the commissioner; or |
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| | | F.__Fraudulently represent that an article has been | | inspected and passed or exempted under this chapter. |
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| | | §2517.__Plainly identified |
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| | | A person may not sell, transport, offer for sale or | | transportation or receive for transportation in intrastate | | commerce carcasses or parts of carcasses of horses, mules or | | other equines or the meat or meat food products of such carcasses | | unless they are plainly and conspicuously marked or labeled or | | otherwise identified as required by rules established by the | | commissioner to show the kinds of animals from which they were | | derived.__When required by the commissioner, with respect to | | establishments at which inspection is maintained under this | | subchapter, those animals and their carcasses, meat and meat food | | products must be prepared in establishments separate from those | | in which cattle, sheep, swine or goats are slaughtered or their | | carcasses, meat or meat food products are prepared. |
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| | | §2517-A.__Inspectors; appointment and duties; rules |
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| | | The commissioner shall appoint inspectors to examine and | | inspect animals, carcasses and parts of carcasses, meat and meat | | food products and the sanitary conditions of all establishments | | in which the meat and meat food products are prepared.__The | | inspectors shall refuse to stamp, mark, tag or label a carcass, | | any part of a carcass or a meat food product from a carcass until | | the same has actually been inspected and found to be not | | adulterated.__The inspectors shall perform other duties pursuant | | to this chapter and rules adopted by the commissioner, and the | | commissioner shall, in a manner consistent with the Maine | | Administrative Procedure Act, adopt rules that are necessary for | | the efficient execution of this chapter.__All inspections and | | examinations under this chapter must be made in the manner | | prescribed in rules adopted by the commissioner. |
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