California · Business and Professions Code - BPC

BPC §22181: Any person or any officer, director, employee or agent of any person who makes, sells or offers to sell or dispose of, or has in his possession with intent to sell or dispose of, any article to which

Misdemeanor

What this law says, in plain English

A person who makes, sells, or possesses with intent to sell any article with a non-conforming or missing quality mark commits a misdemeanor.

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Any person or any officer, director, employee or agent of any person who makes, sells or offers to sell or dispose of, or has in his possession with intent to sell or dispose of, any article to which is applied any quality mark which does not conform to all the provisions of this article or from which is omitted any mark required by the provisions of this article is guilty of a misdemeanor.

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