It shall be unlawful for any person: 1. To forge any official federal device or mark. 2. Knowingly to possess, without authority granted by the United States department of agriculture, any official federal device or any counterfeit, simulated, forged or improperly altered official federal device, mark or label, or any carcass of any poultry, or part or product thereof, bearing any counterfeit, simulated, forged or improperly altered official federal mark. 3. Knowingly to represent that any article has been federally inspected and passed, or exempted, when it has not been so inspected and passed, or exempted.
New York Legal Code