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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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