The Florida Senate

585.81  Unauthorized use or counterfeiting of official marks or labels.--

(1)  No person shall cast, print, lithograph, or otherwise make any device containing any official mark of inspection or simulation thereof, or any label bearing any such mark or simulation, or any form or simulation thereof, except as authorized by the department.

(2)  No person shall:

(a)  Forge any official device, mark, or label.

(b)  Without authorization from the department, use any official device, mark, or label, or simulation thereof, or alter, detach, deface, or destroy any official device, mark, or label.

(c)  Fail to use, detach, deface, or destroy any official device, mark, or label.

(d)  Possess any official or counterfeit marking, stamping, or labeling device intended for use with or on any carcass or part, or product thereof.

(e)  Represent that a product has been "Inspected and Passed" or "Inspected for Wholesomeness" or exempted, under this part when, in fact, it has, respectively, not been so "Inspected and Passed" or "Inspected for Wholesomeness" or exempted.

History.--s. 54, ch. 90-321.