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.