Marvin Mandel, Governor                          1591

ing in any particular, it may direct that such use be withheld unless
the marking, labeling, or container is modified in such manner as he
THE BOARD may prescribe so that it will not be false or misleading.
If the person using or proposing to use the marking, labeling or con-
tainer does not accept the determination of the Board, such person
may request a hearing, but the use of the marking, labeling, or con-
tainer shall, if the Board so directs, be withheld pending hearing,, and
final determination by the Board. Any such determination by the
Board shall be conclusive unless, within thirty days after receipt of
notice of such final determination, the person adversely affected
thereby appeals to the Circuit Court for any County or the Circuit
Court for Baltimore City.
197-10.

(a)    No person shall:

(1)    slaughter any poultry or process any poultry products which
are capable of use as human food at any establishment processing
any such articles solely for intrastate commerce, except in com-
pliance with the requirements of this Act;

(2)    sell, transport, offer for sale or transportation, or receive
for transportation, in intrastate commerce, (A) any poultry prod-
ucts which are capable of use as human food and are adulterated or
misbranded at the time of such sale, transportation, offer for sale
or transportation, or receipt for transportation; or (B) any poultry
products required to be inspected under this Act unless they have
been so inspected and passed;

(3)    do, with respect to any poultry products which are capable
of use as human food, any act while they are benig BEING trans-
ported in intrastate commerce or held for sale after such transporta-
tion, which is intended to cause or has the effect of causing such prod-
ucts to be adulterated or misbranded;

(4) sell, transport, offer for sale or transportation, or receive
for transportation, in intrastate commerce or from an official es-
tablishment, any slaughtered poultry from, which the blood, feathers,
feet, head, or viscera have not been removed in accordance with
regulations promulgated by the Board, except as may be authorized
by regulations of the Board;

(5) use to his own advantage, or reveal other than to the au-
thorized representatives of the State Government or any other
government in their official capacity, or as ordered by a court in
any judicial proceedings, any information acquired under the au-
thority of this Act concerning any matter which is entitled to pro-
tection as a trade secret.

(b)    No brand manufacturer, printer, or other person shall cast,
print, lithograph, or otherwise make any device containing any offi-
cial 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 Board.

(c)    No person shall:

(1)    forge any official device, mark, or certificate;

(2)    without authorization from the Board use any official device,
mark, or certificate, or simulation thereof, or alter, detach, deface,
or destroy any official device, mark, or certificate;

(3)    contrary to the regulations prescribed by the Board, fail
to use, or to detach, deface, or destroy any official device, mark, or
certificate;

(4) knowingly possess, without promptly notifying the Board
or his ITS representative, any official device or any counterfeit, simu-