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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