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2 OK Stat § 2-6-194 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 2. Agriculture|§2-6-194. Bribery - Penalties.

|Any person, firm, or corporation, or any agent or employee of any person, firm, or corporation, who shall give, pay, or offer, directly or indirectly, to any inspector, deputy inspector, chief inspector, or any other officer or employee of this state authorized to perform any of the duties prescribed by this act or by the rules of the Board, any money or other thing of value, with intent to influence said inspector, deputy inspector, chief inspector, or other officer or employee of this state in the discharge of any duty herein provided for, shall be deemed guilty of a felony, upon conviction thereof, and shall be punished by a fine not less than Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00) nor more than Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00) and by imprisonment not less than one (1) year nor more than three (3) years; and any inspector, deputy inspector, chief inspector, or other officer or employee of this state authorized to perform any of the duties prescribed by this act who shall accept any money, gift, or other thing of value from any person, firm, or corporation, or officers, agents, or employees thereof, given with intent to influence his official action, or who shall receive or accept from any person, firm, or corporation engaged in intrastate commerce any gift, money, or other thing of value given with any purpose or intent whatsoever, shall be deemed guilty of a felony and shall, upon conviction thereof, be summarily discharged from office and shall be punished by a fine not less than One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) nor more than Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00) and by imprisonment not less than one (1) year nor more than three (3) years. |Added by Laws 1968, c. 63, § 14, emerg. eff. March 19, 1968. Amended by Laws 1997, c. 133, § 89, eff. July 1, 1999; Laws 1999, 1st Ex.Sess., c. 5, § 27, eff. July 1, 1999.NOTE: Laws 1998, 1st Ex.Sess., c. 2, § 23 amended the effective date of Laws 1997, c. 133, § 89 from July 1, 1998, to July 1, 1999.
2 OK Stat § 2-6-195 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 2. Agriculture|§2-6-195. Exemptions.

|A. The provisions of Sections 6-181 through 6-196 of this title requiring inspection of the slaughter of animals and the preparation of the carcasses, parts thereof, meat and meat food products at establishments conducting such operations shall not apply: |1. To the slaughtering of animals of a person’s own raising, and the preparation and transportation in intrastate commerce of the carcasses, parts thereof, meat and meat food products of such animals exclusively for use by a person and members of a person’s household and nonpaying guests and employees; nor2. To the custom slaughter by any person, firm, or corporation of cattle, bison, sheep, swine or goats delivered by the owner thereof for such slaughter, and the preparation by such slaughterer and transportation in intrastate commerce of the carcasses, parts thereof, meat and meat food products of such animals, exclusively for use in the household of such owner, by the owner and members of the owner’s household and nonpaying guests and employees.B. The provisions of this act requiring inspection of the slaughter of animals and the preparation of carcasses, parts thereof, meat and meat food products shall not apply to operations of types traditionally and usually conducted at retail stores and restaurants, when conducted at any retail store or restaurant or similar retail type establishment for sale in normal retail quantities or service of such articles to consumers at such establishments.C. The slaughter of animals and preparation of articles referred to in paragraph 2 of subsection A and subsection B of this section shall be conducted in accordance with such sanitary conditions as the Board may by regulations prescribe. Violation of any such regulation is prohibited.D. The humane slaughter and handling of animals and the adulteration and misbranding provisions of Sections 6-181 through 6-196 of this title, other than the requirement of the inspection legend, shall apply to articles which are not required to be inspected under this section.Added by Laws 1968, c. 63, § 15, emerg. eff. March 19, 1968. Amended by Laws 1978, c. 70, § 1; Laws 1985, c. 38, § 8, eff. Nov. 1, 1985; Laws 2010, c. 90, § 1, emerg. eff. April 12, 2010.
2 OK Stat § 2-6-196 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 2. Agriculture|§2-6-196. Storing and handling - Regulations.

|The Board may, by regulations, prescribe conditions under which carcasses, parts of carcasses, meat, and meat food products of cattle, bison, sheep, swine, goats, horses, mules, or other equines, capable of use as human food, shall be stored or otherwise handled by any person, firm, or corporation engaged in the business of buying, selling, freezing, storing, or transporting, in or for intrastate commerce, such articles, whenever the Board deems such action necessary to assure that such articles will not be adulterated or misbranded when delivered to the consumer. Violation of any such regulation is prohibited. |Amended by Laws 1985, c. 38, § 9, eff. Nov. 1, 1985.
2 OK Stat § 2-6-197 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 2. Agriculture|§2-6-197. Articles not intended as human food.

|Inspection shall not be provided under Sections 181 et seq. of this title at any establishment for the slaughter of cattle, bison, sheep, swine, goats, horses, mules, or other equines, or the preparation of any carcasses or parts or products of such animals which are not intended for use as human food, but such articles shall, prior to their offer for sale or transportation in intrastate commerce, unless naturally inedible by humans, be denatured or otherwise identified as prescribed by regulations of the Board to deter their use for human food. No person, firm, or corporation shall buy, sell, transport, or offer for sale or transportation, or receive for transportation, in intrastate commerce, any carcasses, parts thereof, meat or meat food products of any such animals, which are not intended for use as human food unless they are denatured or otherwise identified as required by the regulations of the Board or are naturally inedible by humans. |Amended by Laws 1985, c. 38, § 10, eff. Nov. 1, 1985.
2 OK Stat § 2-6-198 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 2. Agriculture|§2-6-198. Records.

|(a) The following classes of persons, firms, and corporations shall keep such records as will fully and correctly disclose all transactions involved in their businesses; and all persons, firms, and corporations subject to such requirements shall, at all reasonable times, upon notice by a duly authorized representative of the Board, afford such representative and any duly authorized representative of the Secretary of Agriculture of the United States accompanied by such representative of the Board access to their places of business and opportunity to examine the facilities, inventory, and records thereof, to copy all such records, and to take reasonable samples of their inventory upon payment of the fair market value therefor: |(1) Any persons, firms, or corporations that engage, for intrastate commerce, in the business of slaughtering any cattle, bison, sheep, swine, goats, horses, mules, or other equines, or preparing, freezing, packaging, or labeling any carcasses, or parts or products of carcasses, of any such animals, for use as human food or animal food;(2) Any persons, firms, or corporations that engage in the business of buying or selling (as meat brokers, wholesalers or otherwise), or transporting, in intrastate commerce, or storing in or for such commerce, any carcasses, or parts or products of carcasses, of any such animals;(3) Any persons, firms, or corporations that engage in business, in or for intrastate commerce, as renderers, or engage in the business of buying, selling, or transporting, in such commerce, any dead, dying, disabled, or diseased cattle, bison, sheep, swine, goats, horses, mules, or other equines, or parts of the carcasses of any such animals that died otherwise than by slaughter.(b) Any record required to be maintained by this section shall be maintained for such period of time as the Board may by regulations prescribe.Amended by Laws 1985, c. 38, § 11, eff. Nov. 1, 1985.
2 OK Stat § 2-6-199 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 2. Agriculture|§2-6-199. Registration of certain businesses.

|No person, firm, or corporation shall engage in business, in or for intrastate commerce, as a meat broker, renderer, or animal food manufacturer, or engage in business in such commerce as a wholesaler of any carcasses, or parts or products of the carcasses, of any cattle, bison, sheep, swine, goats, horses, mules, or other equines, whether intended for human food or other purposes, or engage in business as a public warehouseman storing any such articles in or for such commerce, or engage in the business of buying, selling, or transporting in such commerce any dead, dying, disabled, or diseased animals of the specified kinds, or parts of the carcasses of any such animals that died otherwise than by slaughter, unless, when required by regulations of the Board, he has registered with the Board his name, and the address of each place of business at which and all trade names under which he conducts such business. |Laws 1955, p. 42, art. 6(A), § 2.
2 OK Stat § 2-6-200 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 2. Agriculture|§2-6-200. Dead, dying or disabled animals - Regulations concerning.

|No person, firm, or corporation engaged in the business of buying, selling, or transporting in intrastate commerce dead, dying, disabled, or diseased animals, or any part of the carcasses of any animals that died otherwise than by slaughter, shall buy, sell, transport, offer for sale or transportation, or receive for transportation, in such commerce, any dead, dying, disabled, or diseased cattle, bison, sheep, swine, goats, horses, mules or other equines, or parts of the carcasses of any such animals that died otherwise than by slaughter, unless such transaction or transportation is made in accordance with such regulations as the Board prescribes to assure that such animals, or the unwholesome parts or products thereof, will be prevented from being used for human food purposes. |Amended by Laws 1985, c. 38, § 13, eff. Nov. 1, 1985.
2 OK Stat § 2-6-201 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 2. Agriculture|§2-6-201. Cooperation with Federal Government.

|(a) The Oklahoma State Board of Agriculture is hereby designated as the state agency which shall be responsible for cooperating with the Secretary of Agriculture of the United States under the provisions of Section 301 of the Federal Meat Inspection Act and such agency may cooperate with the Secretary of Agriculture of the United States in developing and administering the meat inspection program of this state under this act to assure that not later than November 15, 1969, its requirements will be at least equal to those imposed under Titles I and IV of the Federal Meat Inspection Act and in developing and administering the program of this state under Section 6-197 et seq. of this title in such a manner as will effectuate the purposes of this act and said Federal Act. |(b) In such cooperative efforts, the Oklahoma State Board of Agriculture is authorized to accept from said Secretary advisory assistance in planning and otherwise developing the state program, technical and laboratory assistance and training (including necessary curricular and instructional materials and equipment), and financial and other aid for administration of such a program. The Oklahoma State Board of Agriculture is further authorized to spend public funds of this state appropriated for administration of this act.(c) The Oklahoma State Board of Agriculture is further authorized to recommend to the said Secretary of Agriculture such officials or employees of this state as the Oklahoma State Board of Agriculture shall designate, for appointment to the advisory committees provided for in Section 301 of the Federal Meat Inspection Act; and the President of the Oklahoma State Board of Agriculture shall serve as the representative of the Governor for consultation with said Secretary under paragraph (c) of Section 301 of said act, unless the Governor shall select another representative.Amended by Laws 1986, c. 309, § 10, operative July 1, 1986.
2 OK Stat § 2-6-202 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 2. Agriculture|§2-6-202. Refusal or withdrawal of inspection.

|The Board may (for such period, or indefinitely, as it deems necessary to effectuate the purposes of this act) refuse to provide, or withdraw, inspection service under Sections 1 through 16 of this act 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 under Sections 1 through 16 of this act because the applicant or recipient, or anyone responsibly connected with the applicant or recipient, has been convicted, in any federal or state court of (1) any felony, or (2) more than one (1) 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. This section shall not affect in any way other provisions of this act for withdrawal of inspection services under Sections 1 through 16 from establishments failing to maintain sanitary conditions or to destroy condemned carcasses, parts, meat or meat food products. |For the purpose of this section 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 under 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 as provided in Section 25. Judicial review of any such order shall be upon the record upon which the determination and order are based.Laws 1968, c. 63, § 22, emerg. eff. March 19, 1968.
2 OK Stat § 2-6-203 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 2. Agriculture|§2-6-203. Detention of animals or products.

|Whenever any carcass, part of a carcass, meat or meat food product of cattle, bison, sheep, swine, goats, horses, mules, or other equines, or any product exempted from the definition of a meat food product, or any dead, dying, disabled, or diseased cattle, bison, sheep, swine, goat, or equine is found by any authorized representative of the Board upon any premises where it is held for purposes of or during or after distribution in intrastate commerce, and there is reason to believe that any such article is adulterated or misbranded and is capable of use as human food, or that it has not been inspected, in violation of the provisions of Sections 6-181 et seq. of this title or of the Federal Meat Inspection Act or the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, or that such article or animal has been or is intended to be distributed in violation of any such provisions, it may be detained by such representative for a period not to exceed twenty (20) days, pending action under Section 6-204 of this title or notification of any federal authorities having jurisdiction over such article or animal, and shall not be moved by any person, firm, or corporation from the place at which it is located when so detained, until released by such representative. All official marks may be required by such representative to be removed from such article or animal before it is released unless it appears to the satisfaction of the Board that the article or animal is eligible to retain such marks. |Laws 1968, c. 63, § 22, emerg. eff. March 19, 1968.
2 OK Stat § 2-6-204 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 2. Agriculture|§2-6-204. Seizure and condemnation.

|(a) Any carcass, part of a carcass, meat or meat food product of cattle, bison, sheep, swine, goats, horses, mules or other equines, or any dead, dying, disabled, or diseased cattle, bison, sheep, swine, goat, or equine, that is being transported in intrastate commerce, or is held for sale in this state after such transportation, and that (1) is or has been prepared, sold, transported, or otherwise distributed or offered or received for distribution in violation of this act, or (2) is capable of use as human food and is adulterated or misbranded, or (3) in any other way is in violation of this act, shall be liable to be proceeded against and seized and condemned, at any time, on an information filed in any proper court as provided in Section 6-205 of this title within the jurisdiction of which the article or animal is found. If the article or animal is condemned it shall, after entry of the decree, be disposed of by destruction or sale as the court may direct and the proceeds, if sold, less the court costs and fees, and storage and other proper expenses, shall be paid into the treasury of this state, but the article or animal shall not be sold contrary to the provisions of this act, or the Federal Meat Inspection Act or the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, provided, that upon the execution and delivery of a good and sufficient bond conditioned that the article or animal shall not be sold or otherwise disposed of contrary to the provisions of this act, or the laws of the United States, the court may direct that such article or animal be delivered to the owner thereof subject to such supervision by authorized representatives of the Board as is necessary to ensure compliance with the applicable laws. When a decree of condemnation is entered against the article or animal and it is released under bond, or destroyed, court costs and fees, and storage and other proper expenses shall be awarded against the person, if any, intervening as claimant of the article or animal. The proceedings shall be at the suit of and in the name of this state. |(b) The provisions of this section shall in no way derogate from authority for condemnation or seizure conferred by other provisions of this act, or other laws.Amended by Laws 1985, c. 38, § 15, eff. Nov. 1, 1985.
2 OK Stat § 2-6-205 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 2. Agriculture|§2-6-205. District courts - Jurisdiction.

|The district courts are vested with jurisdiction specifically to enforce and to prevent and restrain violations of this act, and shall have jurisdiction in all other kinds of cases arising under this act, except as provided in Section 7(e) of this act. |Laws 1968, c. 63, § 25, emerg. eff. March 19, 1968.
2 OK Stat § 2-6-206 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 2. Agriculture|§2-6-206. Interference with persons engaged in official duties - Penalties.

|Any person who forcibly assaults, resists, opposes, impedes, intimidates, or interferes with any person while engaged in or on account of the performance of his official duties under this act shall be guilty of a felony and fined not more than Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00) or imprisoned not more than three (3) years, or both. Whoever, in the commission of any such acts, uses a deadly or dangerous weapon shall be guilty of a felony and fined not more than Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00), or imprisoned not more than ten (10) years, or both. Whoever kills any person while engaged in or on account of the performance of his official duties under this act shall be punished as provided under Section 691 of Title 21 of the Oklahoma Statutes. |Added by Laws 1968, c. 63, § 26, emerg. eff. March 19, 1968. Amended by Laws 1997, c. 133, § 90, eff. July 1, 1999; Laws 1999, 1st Ex.Sess., c. 5, § 28, eff. July 1, 1999.NOTE: Laws 1998, 1st Ex.Sess., c. 2, § 23 amended the effective date of Laws 1997, c. 133, § 90 from July 1, 1998, to July 1, 1999.
2 OK Stat § 2-6-207 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 2. Agriculture|§2-6-207. Violations and penalties.

|(a) Any person, firm, or corporation who violates any provision of the Oklahoma Meat Inspection Act for which no other criminal penalty is provided by this act shall upon conviction be subject to imprisonment for not more than one (1) year, or a fine of not more than One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), or both such imprisonment and fine; but if such violation involves intent to defraud, or any distribution or attempted distribution of an article that is adulterated (except as defined in subparagraph (8) of paragraph (j) of Section 6-182 of this title), such person, firm, or corporation shall be subject to imprisonment for not more than three (3) years, or a fine of not more than Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00), or both; provided, that no person, firm, or corporation shall be subject to penalties under this section for receiving for transportation any article or animal in violation of this act if such receipt was made in good faith, unless such person, firm, or corporation refuses to furnish on request of a representative of the Board the name and address of the person from whom he received such article or animal, and copies of all documents, if any there be, pertaining to the delivery of the article or animal to him. |(b) Nothing in this act shall be construed as requiring the Board to report for prosecution, or for the institution of legal action or injunction proceedings, minor violations of this act whenever it believes that the public interest will be adequately served by a suitable written notice of warning.Added by Laws 1968, c. 63, § 27, emerg. eff. March 19, 1968. Amended by Laws 1997, c. 133, § 88, eff. July 1, 1999; Laws 1999, 1st Ex.Sess., c. 5, § 26, eff. July 1, 1999.NOTE: Laws 1998, 1st Ex.Sess., c. 2, § 23 amended the effective date of Laws 1997, c. 133, § 88 from July 1, 1998, to July 1, 1999.
2 OK Stat § 2-6-209 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 2. Agriculture|§2-6-209. Application of act with respect to Federal Meat Inspection Act.

|The requirements of this act shall apply to persons, firms, corporation establishments, animals, and articles regulated under the Federal Meat Inspection Act only to the extent provided for in Section 408 of said Federal Act. |Laws 1968, c. 63, § 29, emerg. eff. March 19, 1968.
2 OK Stat § 2-6-213 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 2. Agriculture|§2-6-213. Administration of Meat Inspection Act and Poultry Product Inspection Act.

|The State Department of Agriculture shall carry out the provisions of the Oklahoma Meat Inspection Act, Sections 6-181 through 6-209 of Title 2 of the Oklahoma Statutes and the Oklahoma Poultry Products Inspection Act, Sections 6-251 through 6-276 of Title 2 of the Oklahoma Statutes. Further, the provisions of this act shall be administered by the Department despite any potential requested reductions in the overall Department budget. |Added by Laws 1987, c. 237, § 1, emerg. eff. May 4, 1987.
2 OK Stat § 2-6-214 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 2. Agriculture|§2-6-214. Oklahoma certified beef defined.

|"Oklahoma certified beef" shall mean any bovine product bred, born, raised and slaughtered within the State of Oklahoma. |Added by Laws 2020, c. 59, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2020.
2 OK Stat § 2-6-215 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 2. Agriculture|§2-6-215. Certified beef label requirement.

|Persons shall not label any bovine product as Oklahoma Certified Beef unless it meets the definition of Oklahoma certified beef as defined in Section 6-214 of Title 2 of the Oklahoma Statutes. The Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food, and Forestry shall enforce this requirement pursuant to Section 2-18 of Title 2 of the Oklahoma Statutes. |Added by Laws 2021, c. 162, § 1, eff. July 1, 2021.
2 OK Stat § 2-6-251 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 2. Agriculture|§2-6-251. Short title.

|This act shall be designated as the Oklahoma Poultry Products Inspection Act. |Laws 1970, c. 260, § 1, emerg. eff. April 22, 1970.