Okla. Stat. tit. 2, § 2-6-198

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(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,

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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.

Status: in_force · Read it on the official government site

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