Okla. Stat. tit. 2, § 2-6-259
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Prohibited acts
Official statutory text
A. No person shall:
1. slaughter any poultry or process any poultry products
which are capable of use as human food at any establishment
processing any such articles solely for intrastate commerce, except
in compliance with the requirements of this act;
2. sell, transport, offer for sale or transportation, or
receive for transportation, in intrastate commerce:
(a) any poultry products which are capable of use as
human food and are adulterated or misbranded at the
time of such sale, transportation, offer for sale or
transportation, or receipt for transportation; or
(b) any poultry products required to be inspected
under this act unless they have been so inspected and
passed;
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3. do, with respect to any poultry products 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 products to be adulterated or misbranded;
4. sell, transport, offer for sale or transportation, or
receive for transportation, in intrastate commerce or from an
official establishment, any slaughtered poultry from which the
blood, feathers, feet, head, or viscera have not been removed in
accordance with regulations promulgated by the Board, except as may
be authorized by regulations of the Board;
5. use to his own advantage, or reveal other than to the
authorized representatives of the state government or any other
government in their official capacity, or as ordered by a court in
any judicial proceedings, any information acquired under the
authority of this act concerning any matter which is entitled to
protection as a trade secret.
B. No brand manufacturer, printer, or other person 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.
C. No person 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 poultry, 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.
D. Any person who violates the provisions of this section
shall, upon conviction, be guilty of a Class D3 felony offense and
shall be punished by imprisonment as provided for in subsections B
through F of Section 20P of Title 21 of the Oklahoma Statutes.
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1. slaughter any poultry or process any poultry products
which are capable of use as human food at any establishment
processing any such articles solely for intrastate commerce, except
in compliance with the requirements of this act;
2. sell, transport, offer for sale or transportation, or
receive for transportation, in intrastate commerce:
(a) any poultry products which are capable of use as
human food and are adulterated or misbranded at the
time of such sale, transportation, offer for sale or
transportation, or receipt for transportation; or
(b) any poultry products required to be inspected
under this act unless they have been so inspected and
passed;
Oklahoma Statutes - Title 2. Agriculture Page 293
3. do, with respect to any poultry products 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 products to be adulterated or misbranded;
4. sell, transport, offer for sale or transportation, or
receive for transportation, in intrastate commerce or from an
official establishment, any slaughtered poultry from which the
blood, feathers, feet, head, or viscera have not been removed in
accordance with regulations promulgated by the Board, except as may
be authorized by regulations of the Board;
5. use to his own advantage, or reveal other than to the
authorized representatives of the state government or any other
government in their official capacity, or as ordered by a court in
any judicial proceedings, any information acquired under the
authority of this act concerning any matter which is entitled to
protection as a trade secret.
B. No brand manufacturer, printer, or other person 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.
C. No person 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 poultry, 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.
D. Any person who violates the provisions of this section
shall, upon conviction, be guilty of a Class D3 felony offense and
shall be punished by imprisonment as provided for in subsections B
through F of Section 20P of Title 21 of the Oklahoma Statutes.
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