A. It is unlawful for any person to package any product and label the product as pinon nuts or as containing pinon nuts or to use the words pinon nuts in any prominent location on the label of such product or to advertise, sell or offer for sale any product which is labeled pinon nuts or as containing pinon nuts unless the product consists of pinon nuts or uses pinon nuts as an ingredient in the product.
B. As used in this section, "pinon nuts" means the edible nut which is the product of the pinon tree, scientifically known as genus "pinus", subgenus "strobus", section "parrya", subsection "cembroides".
History: Laws 1987, ch. 43, § 2; 1993, ch. 299, § 1.
ANNOTATIONSThe 1993 amendment, effective April 7, 1993, substituted the language beginning "genus 'pinus'" for "the pinus edulis and pinus monophylla" at the end of Subsection B and made minor stylistic changes.