Okla. Stat. tit. 2, § 2-6-261

Brokers, renderers or manufacturers - Dead or diseased poultry.

A. Inspection shall not be provided under this act at any

establishment for the slaughter of poultry or the processing of any

carcasses or parts or products of poultry, which are not intended

for use as human food, but such articles shall, prior to their offer

for sale or transportation in intrastate commerce, be denatured or

otherwise identified as prescribed by regulations of the Board to

deter their use for human food. No person shall buy, sell,

transport, or offer for sale or transportation, or receive for

transportation, in intrastate commerce, any poultry carcasses or

parts or products thereof 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 naturally inedible by humans.

B. The following classes of persons shall, for such period of

time as the Board may by regulations prescribe, not to exceed two

(2) years unless otherwise directed by the Board for good cause

shown, keep such records as are properly necessary for the effective

enforcement of this act in order to insure against adulterated or

misbranded poultry products for the American consumer; and all

persons subject to such requirements shall, at all reasonable times,

upon notice by a duly authorized representative of the Board, afford

such representative 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 person that engages in the business of slaughtering any

poultry or processing, freezing, packaging, or labeling any

carcasses, or parts or products of carcasses, of any poultry, for

intrastate commerce, for use as human food or animal food;

2. Any person that engages in the business of buying or

selling, as poultry products brokers, wholesalers, or otherwise, or

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transporting, in intrastate commerce, or storing in or for

intrastate commerce, any carcasses, or parts or products of

carcasses, of any poultry;

3. Any person that engages in business, in or for intrastate

commerce, as a renderer, or engages in the business of buying,

selling, or transporting, in intrastate commerce, any dead, dying,

disabled, or diseased poultry or parts of the carcasses of any

poultry that died otherwise than by slaughter.

C. No person shall engage in business, in or for intrastate

commerce, as a poultry products broker, renderer, or animal food

manufacturer, or engage in business in intrastate commerce as a

wholesaler of any carcasses, or parts or products of the carcasses,

of any poultry, whether intended for human food or other purposes,

or engage in business as a public warehouseman storing any such

articles in or for intrastate commerce, or engage in the business of

buying, selling, or transporting in intrastate commerce any dead,

dying, disabled, or diseased poultry, or parts of the carcasses of

any poultry 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.

D. No person engaged in the business of buying, selling, or

transporting in intrastate commerce, dead, dying, disabled or

diseased poultry, or any parts of the carcasses of any poultry that

dies otherwise than by slaughter, shall buy, sell, transport, offer

for sale or transportation, or receive for transportation in

intrastate commerce, any dead, dying, disabled, or diseased poultry

or parts of the carcasses of any poultry that died otherwise than by

slaughter, unless such transaction or transportation is made in

accordance with such regulations as the Board may prescribe to
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dies otherwise than by slaughter, shall buy, sell, transport, offer

for sale or transportation, or receive for transportation in

intrastate commerce, any dead, dying, disabled, or diseased poultry

or parts of the carcasses of any poultry that died otherwise than by

slaughter, unless such transaction or transportation is made in

accordance with such regulations as the Board may prescribe to

assure that such poultry, or the unwholesome parts or products

thereof, will be prevented from being used for human food.

E. 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.