2 OK Stat § 2-6-290.10 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 2. Agriculture|§2-6-290.10. Suspension of plant approval - Grounds - Refusal to provide or withdrawal of inspection service.

|A. 1. Any plant approval given pursuant to the Exotic Livestock and Exotic Livestock Products Inspection Act may be suspended by the Department for: |a.failure to maintain a plant and equipment in a satisfactory state of repair;b.failure to maintain plant or equipment in a sanitary manner on a continuing basis;c.the use of operating procedure which are not in accordance with the Exotic Livestock and Exotic Livestock Products Inspection Act or regulations promulgated thereto;d.alterations of buildings, facilities, or equipment which cannot be approved in accordance with the Exotic Livestock and Exotic Livestock Products Inspection Act or regulations promulgated thereto;e.assault on an agent of the Board; orf.failure to properly denature condemned and inedible materials.2. During such period of suspension, inspection service shall not be rendered. However, the other provisions of the Exotic Livestock and Exotic Livestock Products Inspection Act pertaining to providing such service on a resident basis will remain in effect unless such service is terminated in accordance with duly authorized regulations promulgated by the Department. Upon suspension of inspection service in an official plant, the plant approval shall also become suspended, and all labels, seals, tags or packaging material bearing official identification shall be destroyed, or the official identification completely obliterated, or sealed in a manner acceptable to the Department.B. 1. The Board may refuse to provide, or withdraw, inspection service with respect to any establishment if it determines, after opportunity for a hearing is accorded to the applicant for, or recipient of, such service, that such applicant or recipient is unfit to engage in any business requiring inspection because the applicant or recipient, or any person responsibly connected with the applicant or recipient, has been convicted, in any federal or state court of:a.any felony, orb.more than one violation of any law, other than a felony, based upon the acquiring, handling, or distributing of unwholesome, mislabeled, or deceptively packaged food or upon fraud in connection with transactions in food.2. This section shall not affect in any way other provisions of the Exotic Livestock and Exotic Livestock Products Inspection Act for withdrawal of inspection services from establishments failing to maintain sanitary conditions or to destroy condemned carcasses, parts, meats or meat food products.3. For the purpose of this subsection, a person shall be deemed to be responsibly connected with the business if he was a partner, officer, director, holder, or owner of ten percent (10%) or more of its voting stock or employee in a managerial or executive capacity. The determination and order of the Board with respect thereto pursuant to this section shall be final and conclusive unless the affected applicant for, or recipient of, inspection service files application for judicial review within thirty (30) days after the effective date of such order in the appropriate court. Judicial review of any such order shall be upon the record upon which the determination and order are based.Added by Laws 1991, c. 231, § 10, eff. Sept. 1, 1991.