2000 Minnesota Statutes

     31.661 Marks, stamps, tags, brands, or labels.  

    No person shall: 

    (1) Willfully mark, stamp, tag, brand, label or in any 
 other way or by any other means of identification, represent or 
 cause to be marked, stamped, tagged, branded, labeled or 
 represented as kosher or as having been prepared in accordance 
 with the orthodox Hebrew religious requirements food or food 
 products not kosher or not so prepared, or 

    (2) Willfully remove, deface, obliterate, cover, alter, or 
 destroy or cause to be removed, defaced, obliterated, covered, 
 altered or destroyed the original slaughterhouse plumba or any 
 other mark, stamp, tag, brand, label or any other means of 
 identification affixed to foods or food products to indicate 
 that such foods or food products are kosher or have been 
 prepared in accordance with the orthodox Hebrew religious 
 requirements, or 

    (3) Knowingly sell, dispose of or possess, for the purpose 
 of resale to any person as kosher, any food or food products not 
 having affixed thereto the original slaughterhouse plumba or any 
 other mark, stamp, tag, brand, label or other means of 
 identification employed to indicate that such food or food 
 products are kosher or have been prepared in accordance with the 
 orthodox Hebrew religious requirements or any food or food 
 products to which such plumba, mark, stamp, tag, brand, label or 
 other means of identification has or have been fraudulently 
 affixed.  

    HIST: 1959 c 563 s 2; 1986 c 444