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2 OK Stat § 2-6-150 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 2. Agriculture|§2-6-150. Definitions.

|As used in this Article: |1. “Approved market” means any livestock market, auction, or stockyard which operates under the specific approval of the United States Department of Agriculture, the Oklahoma Agricultural Code, and the rules of the Board;2. "Approved veterinarian" means a graduate veterinarian licensed and accredited by the state of origin and the United States Department of Agriculture, or an authorized veterinary inspector of the United States Department of Agriculture;3. “Livestock” means any animal or bird to be imported into the State of Oklahoma for any purpose;4. "Official health certificate" or “certificate of veterinary inspection” means a legible declaration on an official form from the state of origin or from the United States Department of Agriculture, issued by an approved veterinarian and approved by the chief livestock health official of the state of origin;An official health certificate or certificate of veterinary inspection shall contain the name and address of the consignor and consignee, age, sex, number, breed of livestock, and sufficient identifying marks and/or tags to positively identify the livestock listed on the health certificate. The health certificate shall also contain a statement by the approved veterinarian that such livestock are free from evidence of all contagious, infectious, or communicable diseases and do not originate from a district of quarantine, infestation or infection. A health certificate shall be void thirty (30) days after the date of its issuance. A copy of the health certificate shall be forwarded to the Oklahoma State Veterinarian, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; and5. “Permit” means written permission by the State Board of Agriculture to move certain livestock into or within the State of Oklahoma with or without an official health certificate. A permit shall contain the name and address of the consignor and the consignee, and the number, age, sex, and breed of the livestock.Added by Laws 1967, c. 383, § 1, emerg. eff. May 23, 1967. Amended by Laws 2000, c. 367, § 60, emerg. eff. June 6, 2000.
2 OK Stat § 2-6-151 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 2. Agriculture|§2-6-151. Health certificate or permit required for shipment of livestock into state – Responsible parties – Exemptions - Diseased livestock.

|A. 1. It shall be unlawful to ship, transport, or cause to be shipped or transported any livestock into the State of Oklahoma, unless accompanied by an official health certificate, permit, or both, which shall be in the possession of the driver of the vehicle or person in charge of the livestock. |2. The owner of the livestock, the shipper, and the operator of the vehicle transporting the livestock shall be equally and individually responsible for meeting all requirements regarding health certificates, permits, and the movement of livestock into this state.3. An official health certificate or permit shall not be required for any livestock shipped directly from a farm of origin, with no diversion in route, to an approved market or slaughtering establishment operating under state or federal supervision, if a waybill, bill of lading, or certificate of ownership accompanies the shipment showing the consignor and the point of origin of the shipment, and the approved market or slaughtering establishment to which the livestock are shipped.B. 1. It shall be unlawful for any livestock that are affected with or that have been exposed to any infectious, contagious, or communicable disease or which originate from a quarantined area to be shipped or in any manner transported or moved into or through the state until written permission for entry, transportation, or movement is obtained from the State Board of Agriculture or its authorized agent.2. A written permit shall not be required for diseased animals which are approved for interstate shipment under specified restrictions by the United States Department of Agriculture.Added by Laws 1967, c. 383, § 2, emerg. eff. May 23, 1967. Amended by Laws 2000, c. 367, § 61, emerg. eff. June 6, 2000.
2 OK Stat § 2-6-152 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 2. Agriculture|§2-6-152. Inspection and quarantine – Condemnation – Quarantine release.

|A. 1. Any authorized agent of the State Board of Agriculture, or any law enforcement officer of the State of Oklahoma or any subdivision, shall have the authority to stop the shipment or movement of any livestock within this state, and the agent or officer may hold the livestock under quarantine at the owner's risk and expense for observation, tests, vaccination, dipping, treatment, inspection, or for any other purposes. |2. The agent or officer may order any and all livestock unloaded or handled in any manner when the agent or officer finds it necessary to effect a more complete and thorough inspection or examination.3. If the livestock are found to be affected with any infectious or communicable disease or condition which poses a threat to the public health, safety, or welfare, the Board or State Veterinarian may condemn the livestock and order them slaughtered immediately. The agent, Board, or State Veterinarian shall not be liable for the loss in value of any livestock stopped, quarantined, condemned, or slaughtered under the provisions of this subarticle.B. No livestock held under quarantine shall be released from quarantine until a written release, signed by an authorized agent has been executed.Added by Laws 1967, c. 383, § 3, emerg. eff. May 23, 1967. Amended by Laws 2000, c. 367, § 62, emerg. eff. June 6, 2000.
2 OK Stat § 2-6-153 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 2. Agriculture|§2-6-153. Documentation to accompany shipments – Information for exibition.

|A. In order to assist in the enforcement of this law and to aid in determining the point of origin of livestock transported within the State of Oklahoma, all livestock shall be accompanied by a health certificate, a bill of sale, or acceptable proof of ownership of the livestock. All such documents shall disclose the name of the owner, the name of the consignee, the point of origin, the point of destination, and a description of the livestock sufficient to identify them for any purpose. |B. The importation requirements in this subarticle are applicable to any livestock shipped into or transported within this state for exhibition purposes.Added by Laws 1967, c. 383, § 4, emerg. eff. May 23, 1967. Amended by Laws 2000, c. 367, § 63, emerg. eff. June 6, 2000.
2 OK Stat § 2-6-155 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 2. Agriculture|§2-6-155. Penalties.

|Any person violating the provisions of subsections (a) and (b) of Section 6-151 of this title relating to the importation and transportation of livestock, is guilty of a felony and subject to a maximum punishment of two (2) years in prison or a Two Thousand Dollar ($2,000.00) fine, or both. Any person violating any of the other provisions of this section, relating to the importation and transportation of livestock, is guilty of a misdemeanor and subject to a maximum punishment of six (6) months in the county jail or a Five Hundred Dollar ($500.00) fine, or both. Each animal brought into the state in violation of any of the provisions of this section shall constitute a separate and distinct violation. |Added by Laws 1967, c. 383, § 6, emerg. eff. May 23, 1967. Amended by Laws 1997, c. 133, § 87, eff. July 1, 1999; Laws 1999, 1st Ex.Sess., c. 5, § 25, eff. July 1, 1999.NOTE: Laws 1998, 1st Ex.Sess., c. 2, § 23 amended the effective date of Laws 1997, c. 133, § 87 from July 1, 1998, to July 1, 1999.
2 OK Stat § 2-6-181 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 2. Agriculture|§2-6-181. Designation.

|This act shall be designated as the "Oklahoma Meat Inspection Act." |Laws 1968, c. 63, § 1, emerg. eff. March 19, 1968.
2 OK Stat § 2-6-182.1 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 2. Agriculture|§2-6-182.1. Standards for producers that market and sell beef and bison in intrastate commerce.

|A. Upon approval by the United States Department of Agriculture, the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food, and Forestry may establish standards for Oklahoma producers that market and sell beef and bison in intrastate commerce. |B. The Department is authorized to promulgate rules regarding slaughter facilities that provide for the following:1. Establish standards that allow for flexibility in beef and bison inspection, including, but not limited to, establishing the number of inspectors at a facility and the use of technologies to digitally inspect meat;2. Establish standards for the labeling of beef and bison products sold intrastate;3. Establish standards for the number of head over which a facility shall pay for a state inspector; and4. Establish any other standards necessary to increase the ability of producers to market and sell beef and bison in intrastate commerce.C. Any rules promulgated pursuant to this section shall ensure that food safety will not be compromised in any way and will ensure that consumers are protected.Added by Laws 2020, c. 82, § 1, emerg. eff. May 20, 2020.
2 OK Stat § 2-6-184 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 2. Agriculture|§2-6-184. Postmortem inspection - Marking or stamping.

|For the purposes hereinbefore set forth the Board shall cause to be made by inspectors appointed for that purpose, as hereinafter provided, a postmortem examination and inspection of the carcasses and parts thereof of all cattle, bison, sheep, swine, goats, horses, mules, and other equines, capable of use as human food, to be prepared at any slaughtering, meat-canning, salting, packing, rendering, or similar establishment in this state in which such articles are prepared for intrastate commerce; and the carcasses and parts thereof of all such animals found to be not adulterated shall be marked, stamped, tagged, or labeled, as "Inspected and Passed"; and said inspectors shall label, mark, stamp, or tag, as "Inspected and Condemned", all carcasses and parts thereof of animals found to be adulterated; and all carcasses and parts thereof thus inspected and condemned shall be destroyed for food purposes by the said establishment in the presence of an inspector, and the Board may remove inspectors from any such establishment which fails to so destroy any such condemned carcass or part thereof, and said inspectors, after said first inspection, shall, when they deem it necessary, reinspect said carcasses or parts thereof to determine whether, since the first inspection, the same have become adulterated and if any carcass or any part thereof shall, upon examination and inspection subsequent to the first examination and inspection, be found to be adulterated, it shall be destroyed for food purposes by the said establishment in the presence of an inspector, and the Board may remove inspectors from any establishment which fails to destroy any such condemned carcass or part thereof. |Amended by Laws 1985, c. 38, § 2, eff. Nov. 1, 1985.
2 OK Stat § 2-6-185 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 2. Agriculture|§2-6-185. Inspection – Limitation of entry.

|A. The Oklahoma Meat Inspection Act shall apply to: |1. All carcasses or parts of carcasses of cattle, bison, sheep, swine, goats, horses, mules, and other equines or the meat or meat products thereof, capable of use as human food, which may be brought into any slaughtering, meat-canning, salting, packing, rendering, or similar establishment, where inspection under the Oklahoma Meat Inspection Act is maintained. Examination and inspection shall be made before the carcasses or parts thereof shall be allowed to enter into any department wherein the same are to be treated and prepared for meat food products; and2. All such products which, after having been issued from any such slaughtering, meat-canning, salting, packing, rendering, or similar establishment, shall be returned to the same or to any similar establishment where such inspection is maintained.B. The Board may limit the entry of carcasses, parts of carcasses, meat and meat food products, and other materials into any establishment at which inspection under the Oklahoma Meat inspection Act is maintained, under the conditions as it may prescribe to assure that allowing the entry of such articles into such inspected establishments will be consistent with the purposes of the Oklahoma Meat Inspection Act.Added by Laws 1968, c. 63, § 5, emerg. eff. March 19, 1968. Amended by Laws 1985, c. 38, § 4, eff. Nov. 1, 1985; Laws 2000, c. 367, § 64, emerg. eff. June 6, 2000.
2 OK Stat § 2-6-186 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 2. Agriculture|§2-6-186. Meat food products - Inspection - Access - Marking or stamping.

|For the purposes hereinbefore set forth, the Board shall cause to be made by inspectors appointed for that purpose an examination and inspection of all meat food products prepared in any slaughtering, meat-canning, salting, packing, rendering, or similar establishment, where such articles are prepared for intrastate commerce and for the purposes of any examination and inspection said inspectors shall have access at all times, by day or night, whether the establishment be operated or not, to every part of said establishment; and said inspectors shall mark, stamp, tag, or label as "Oklahoma Inspected and Passed" all such products found to be not adulterated; and said inspectors shall label, mark, stamp, or tag as "Oklahoma Inspected and Condemned" all such products found adulterated, and all such condemned meat food products shall be destroyed for food purposes, as hereinbefore provided, and the Board may remove inspectors from any establishment which fails to so destroy such condemned meat food products. |Laws 1968, c. 63, § 7, emerg. eff. March 19, 1968.
2 OK Stat § 2-6-188 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 2. Agriculture|§2-6-188. Establishments - Inspections - Sanitary conditions.

|The Board shall cause to be made, by competent inspectors, such inspection of all slaughtering, meat-canning, salting, packing, rendering, or similar establishments in which cattle, bison, sheep, swine, goats, horses, mules, and other equines are slaughtered and the meat and meat food products thereof are prepared for intrastate commerce as may be necessary to inform itself concerning the sanitary conditions of the same and to prescribe the rules and regulations of sanitation under which such establishments shall be maintained; and where the sanitary conditions of any such establishment are such that the meat or meat food products are rendered adulterated, it shall refuse to allow said meat or meat food products to be labeled, marked, stamped, or tagged as "Oklahoma Inspected and Passed", and the Board may remove inspectors from any establishment which fails to maintain said establishment in a sanitary manner. |Amended by Laws 1985, c. 38, § 5, eff. Nov. 1, 1985.
2 OK Stat § 2-6-189 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 2. Agriculture|§2-6-189. Nighttime inspections.

|The Board shall cause an examination and inspection of all cattle, bison, sheep, swine, goats, horses, mules, and other equines, and the food products thereof, slaughtered and prepared in the establishments hereinbefore described for the purposes of intrastate commerce to be made during the nighttime as well as during the daytime when the slaughtering of said cattle, bison, sheep, swine, goats, horses, mules, and other equines, or the preparation of said food products, is conducted during the nighttime. |Amended by Laws 1985, c. 38, § 6, eff. Nov. 1, 1985.
2 OK Stat § 2-6-190 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 2. Agriculture|§2-6-190. Compliance with act - Acts prohibited.

|No person, firm or corporation shall, with respect to any cattle, bison, sheep, swine, goats, horses, mules or other equines, or any carcasses, parts of carcasses, meat or meat food products of any such animals: |(a) Slaughter any such animals or prepare any such articles which are capable of use as human food at any establishment preparing such articles for intrastate commerce, except in compliance with the requirements of this act;(b) Slaughter or handle in connection with slaughter any such animals in any manner not in accordance with Section 6-183 of this title;(c) Sell, transport, offer for sale or transportation, or receive for transportation, in intrastate commerce, (1) any such articles which (A) are capable of use as human food, and (B) are adulterated or misbranded at the time of such sale, transportation, offer for sale or transportation, or receipt for transportation; or (2) any articles required to be inspected under Sections 6-181 through 6-196 of this title unless they have been so inspected and passed;(d) Do, with respect to any such articles which are capable of use as human food, any act while they are being transported in intrastate commerce or held for sale after such transportation, which is intended to cause or has the effect of causing such articles to be adulterated or misbranded.Amended by Laws 1985, c. 38, § 7, eff. Nov. 1, 1985.
2 OK Stat § 2-6-191 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 2. Agriculture|§2-6-191. Forging of official marks or certificates.

|(a) No brand manufacturer, printer, or other person, firm, or corporation shall cast, print, lithograph, or otherwise make any device containing any official mark or simulation thereof, or any label bearing any such mark or simulation, or any form of official certificate or simulation thereof, except as authorized by the Board. |(b) No person, firm, or corporation shall(1) forge any official device, mark, or certificate;(2) without authorization from the Board use any official device, mark, or certificate, or simulation thereof, or alter, detach, deface, or destroy any official device, mark, or certificate;(3) contrary to the regulations prescribed by the Board, fail to use, or to detach, deface, or destroy any official device, mark, or certificate;(4) knowingly possess, without promptly notifying the Board or its representative, any official device or any counterfeit, simulated, forged, or improperly altered official certificate or any device or label or any carcass of any animal, or part or product thereof, bearing any counterfeit, simulated, forged, or improperly altered official mark;(5) knowingly make any false statement in any shipper's certificate or other nonofficial or official certificate provided for in the regulations prescribed by the Board; or(6) knowingly represent that any article has been inspected and passed, or exempted, under this act, when, in fact, it has, respectively, not been so inspected and passed, or exempted.Laws 1968, c. 63, § 11, emerg. eff. March 19, 1968.
2 OK Stat § 2-6-192 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 2. Agriculture|§2-6-192. Horse meat.

|A. It shall be unlawful for any person to sell, offer or exhibit for sale, or have in his or her possession with intent to sell, any quantity of horsemeat for human consumption in Oklahoma. |B. It shall be unlawful for any person to transfer the possession of any horsemeat to any other person when the person so transferring knows, or in the exercise of a reasonable discretion should have known, that the person receiving the horsemeat intends to sell it in this state, offer it for sale in this state, exhibit it for sale in this state, or keep it in his possession with intent to sell it for human consumption in this state.C. No person, firm, or corporation shall sell in this state, transport, offer for sale in this state or transportation, or receive for transportation, in intrastate commerce, any carcasses of horses, mules, or other equines or parts of such carcasses, or the meat or meat food products thereof, unless they are plainly and conspicuously marked or labeled or otherwise identified as required by regulations prescribed by the Board to show the kinds of animals from which they were derived. When required by the Board with respect to establishments at which inspection is maintained under Section 6-181 et seq. of this title, such animals and their carcasses, parts thereof, meat and meat food products shall be prepared in establishments separate from those in which cattle, sheep, swine, or goats are slaughtered or their carcasses, parts thereof, meat or meat food products are prepared.D. The State Commissioner of Health or his or her authorized representative shall have free access to any transport vehicle, factory, warehouse or establishment in which horsemeat or feed suspected of containing horsemeat is transported, manufactured, processed, packed, sold, or prepared for serving to secure, after payment or offer to pay therefor, samples or specimens of such products found therein, to examine any and all sales records, shipping records relating to foods or horsemeat, to embargo any article of food or horsemeat suspected of being in violation of law, and to determine whether any law is being violated.E. For the purpose of this section:1. The term "horsemeat" shall mean the meat or flesh of any animal of the equine genus;2. The term "package" or "container" shall mean the original, properly labeled package or container in which the horsemeat was packaged by the packer or processor at the point of origin; and3. The term "properly labeled" shall mean a display of written, printed or graphic matter upon the outside package or container, or wrapper if there be one, stating the name and address of the original packer or processor, and in addition thereto shall include the word "horsemeat". All letters and words of the label shall be legible and of such size as to be easily read and understood by the ordinary individual under customary conditions of purchase and use.Added by Laws 1968, c. 63, § 12, emerg. eff. March 19, 1968. Amended by Laws 2013, c. 2, § 2, eff. Nov. 1, 2013.
2 OK Stat § 2-6-193 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 2. Agriculture|§2-6-193. Appointment of inspectors - Rules and regulations.

|The Board shall appoint from time to time inspectors to make examination and inspection of all cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses, mules, and other equines, the inspection of which is hereby provided for, and of all carcasses and parts thereof, and of all meat and meat food products thereof, and of the sanitary conditions of all establishments in which such meat and meat food products hereinbefore described are prepared; and said inspectors shall refuse to stamp, mark, tag or label any carcass or any part thereof, or meat food product therefrom, prepared in any establishment hereinbefore mentioned, until the same shall have actually been inspected and found to be not adulterated; and shall perform such other duties as are provided by this act and by the rules and regulations to be prescribed by said Board and said Board shall, from time to time, make such rules and regulations as are necessary for the efficient execution of the provisions of this act, and all inspections and examinations made under this act shall be such and made in such manner as described in the rules and regulations prescribed by said Board not inconsistent with the provisions of this act. |Laws 1968, c. 63, § 13, emerg. eff. March 19, 1968.