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.
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,
Oklahoma Statutes - Title 2. Agriculture Page 275
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.
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