SECTIONS 18841-18857 - California Statutes

FOOD AND AGRICULTURAL CODE

SECTION 18841-18857

18841. It is unlawful for any person to slaughter any livestock or
poultry, or prepare any livestock or poultry product which is capable
of use as human food, at any establishment preparing such article
solely for intrastate commerce, except in compliance with the
requirements of this chapter.

18842. It is unlawful for any person to sell, transport, offer for
sale or transportation, or receive for transportation, in intrastate
commerce, any article required to be inspected under this chapter,
unless such article has been inspected and passed, or any livestock,
poultry, livestock product, or poultry product which is capable of
use as human food, which is adulterated or misbranded at the time of
such sale, transportation, offer for sale or transportation, or
receipt for transportation.

18843. It is unlawful for any person to do, with respect to any
livestock, poultry, livestock product, or poultry product which is
capable of use as human food, any act while it is being transported
in intrastate commerce or held for sale after such transportation,
which is intended to cause, or has the effect of causing, it to be
adulterated or misbranded.

18844. It is unlawful for any person to sell, transport, offer for
sale or transportation, or receive for transportation, in intrastate
commerce, or from an official establishment, any slaughtered poultry
from which the blood, feathers, feet, head, or viscera have not been
removed in accordance with this chapter and regulations promulgated
under this chapter.

18845. It is unlawful for any person to violate any provision of
the regulations promulgated by the director under this chapter.

18846. It is unlawful for any brand manufacturer, printer, or other
person to cast, print, lithograph, or otherwise make any device
containing any official mark or simulation thereof, or any label
bearing any such mark or simulation, or any form of official
certificate or simulation thereof, except as authorized by the
director under such conditions as he may prescribe to assure the
accomplishments of the purposes of this chapter.

18847. It is unlawful for any person to do any of the following:
(a) Forge any official device, mark, or certificate.
(b) Without authorization from the director to use any official
device, mark, or certificate, or simulation thereof, or alter,
detach, deface, or destroy any official device, mark, or certificate.
(c) Contrary to the regulations of the director, fail to use, or
to detach, deface, or destroy any official device, mark, or
certificate.
(d) Knowingly possess, without promptly notifying the director or
his representative, any official device or any counterfeit,
simulated, forged, or improperly altered official certificate, or any
device or label, or any carcass of any animal, including any
poultry, or part or product thereof, bearing any counterfeit,
simulated, forged, or improperly altered official mark.
(e) Knowingly make any false statement in any shipper's
certificate or other nonofficial or official certificate provided for
in the regulations of the director.
(f) Knowingly represent that any article has been inspected and
passed, or exempted, under this chapter when, in fact, it has,
respectively, not been so inspected and passed, or exempted.

18848. It is unlawful for any person to sell any dressed carcass of
any livestock or poultry which is intended for food purposes, or any
prepared meat or meat food product or poultry product within the
state unless it bears the "inspected and passed" stamp of federal
inspection or state inspection applied at the establishment where the
animal was slaughtered and at the establishment where the meat or
meat food product, or poultry or poultry product was prepared or
manufactured.

18849. It is unlawful for any person to sell, transport, offer for
sale or transportation, or receive for transportation, in intrastate
commerce, any carcass of any horse, mule, or other equine, or any
part of the carcass, or any meat or meat food product thereof, unless
it is plainly and conspicuously marked, labeled, or otherwise
identified as required by regulations of the director to indicate the
animal from which it was derived, and is in compliance with Chapter
5 (commencing with Section 19200) of this part and Chapter 10
(commencing with Section 113025) of Part 6 of Division 104 of the
Health and Safety Code.

18850. It is unlawful for any person to buy, sell, transport, or
offer for sale or transportation, or receive for transportation, in
intrastate commerce, any livestock product or poultry product that is
not intended for use as human food, unless it is denatured or
otherwise identified as required by the regulations of the director
or is naturally inedible by humans, and is in compliance with Chapter
5 (commencing with Section 19200) of this part and Chapter 10
(commencing with Section 113025) of Part 6 of Division 104 of the
Health and Safety Code.

18851. It is unlawful for any person engaged in the business of
buying, selling, or transporting, in intrastate commerce, dead,
dying, disabled, or diseased animals, or any parts of the carcasses
of any animals that died otherwise than by slaughter to buy, sell,
transport, offer for sale or transportation, or receive for
transportation, in intrastate commerce, any dead, dying, disabled, or
diseased livestock or poultry, or any products of the animal that
died otherwise than by slaughter, unless the transaction or
transportation, is made in accordance with any regulations the
director may prescribe to assure that the animal, or the part or
product thereof, will be prevented from being used for human food
purposes, and is in compliance with Chapter 5 (commencing with
Section 19200) of this part and Chapter 10 (commencing with Section
113025) of Part 6 of Division 104 of the Health and Safety Code.

18852. It is unlawful for any person to give, pay, or offer,
directly or indirectly, to any officer or employee of this state
authorized to perform any of the duties prescribed by this chapter or
by the regulations of the director, any money or other thing of
value, with intent to influence such officer or employee in the
discharge of any such duty.

18853. It is unlawful for any officer or employee of this state
authorized to perform any of the duties prescribed by this chapter to
accept any money, gift, or other thing of value from any person,
given with intent to influence his official action, or to receive or
accept from any person engaged in intrastate commerce in meat food
products or poultry products any gift, money, or other thing of value
given with any purpose or intent whatsoever.

18854. It is unlawful for any person to forcibly assault, resist,
oppose, impede, intimidate, or interfere with any person while
engaged in or on account of the performance of his official duties
under this chapter.

18855. It is unlawful for any person to neglect or refuse to attend
and testify or to answer any lawful inquiry, or to produce
documentary evidence, if such evidence is available to him, in
obedience to the subpoena or lawful requirement of the director.

18856. It is unlawful for any person to willfully make, or cause to
be made, any false entry or statement of fact in any report required
to be made under this chapter or to willfully make, or cause to be
made, any false entry in any account, record, or memorandum kept by
any person subject to this chapter or to willfully neglect or fail to
make, or to cause to be made, full, true, and correct entries in
such accounts, records, or memoranda, of all facts and transactions
appertaining to the business of such person. It is unlawful to
willfully remove from the jurisdiction of this state, or willfully
mutilate, alter, or by any other means falsify any documentary
evidence of any person subject to this chapter or to willfully refuse
to submit to the director or to any of his authorized agents, for
the purpose of inspection and taking copies, any documentary evidence
of any person subject to this chapter, which is in his possession or
within his control.

18857. It is unlawful for any person required by this chapter to
file any annual or special report to fail so to do within the time
fixed by the director for filing the report.