Texas § HS.433.045 - PROTECTION OF OFFICIAL DEVICE, MARK, AND CERTIFICATE
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§ HS.433.045. PROTECTION OF OFFICIAL DEVICE, MARK, AND CERTIFICATE
PROTECTION OF OFFICIAL DEVICE, MARK, AND CERTIFICATE. A person may not: (1) cast, print, lithograph, or make in any other manner, except as authorized by the department in accordance with department rules: (A) a device containing or label bearing an official mark or a simulation of an official mark; or (B) a form of official certificate or simulation of an official certificate; (2) forge an official device, mark, or certificate; (3) without the department's authorization, use, alter, detach, deface, or destroy an official device, mark, or certificate or use a simulation of an official device, mark, or certificate; (4) detach, deface, destroy, or fail to use an official device, mark, or certificate, in violation of a department rule; (5) knowingly possess, without promptly notifying the department: (A) an official device; (B) a counterfeit, simulated, forged, or improperly altered official certificate; or (C) a device, label, animal carcass, or part or product of an animal carcass, bearing a counterfeit, simulated, forged, or improperly altered official mark; (6) knowingly make a false statement in a shipper's certificate or other certificate provided for by department rule; or (7) knowingly represent that an article has been inspected and passed, when it has not, or is exempted, when it is not. Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 678, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989. Amended by: Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1 (S.B. 219 ), Sec. 3.1050, eff. April 2, 2015. SUBCHAPTER D. MISCELLANEOUS PROHIBITIONS
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