IOWA STATUTES AND CODES
189A.16 - FORGERY OR COUNTERFEITING.
189A.16 FORGERY OR COUNTERFEITING.
1. No brand manufacturer, printer, or other person shall 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 secretary.
2. No person shall do any of the following:
a. Forge any official device, mark, or certificate.
b. Without authorization from the secretary, 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 prescribed by the secretary,
fail to use, or to detach, deface, or destroy any official device,
mark, or certificate.
d. Knowingly possess, without promptly notifying the
secretary or the secretary's 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 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 prescribed by the secretary.
f. Knowingly represent that any article has been inspected
and passed, or exempted, under this chapter when it has not been so
inspected and passed, or exempted. Section History: Early Form
[C71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 189A.16]