Okla. Stat. tit. 2, § 2-6-280.10
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Prohibitions relating to processing, transportation
Official statutory text
and sale of rabbits.
A. On and after September 1, 1989, no person shall:
1. slaughter any rabbit or process any rabbit 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 the Oklahoma Rabbit and Rabbit Products
Inspection Act; and
2. sell, transport, offer for sale or transportation, or
receive for transportation, in intrastate commerce or from an
official establishment, any slaughtered rabbit from which the blood,
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.
B. No person shall:
1. sell, transport, offer for sale or transportation, or
receive for transportation, in intrastate commerce:
a. any rabbit 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 rabbit products required to be inspected pursuant
to the Oklahoma Rabbit and Rabbit Products Inspection
Act unless they have been so inspected and passed;
Oklahoma Statutes - Title 2. Agriculture Page 315
2. perform any act which is intended to cause or has the effect
of causing such rabbit or rabbit products to be adulterated or
misbranded;
3. 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 the Oklahoma Rabbit and Rabbit Products Inspection Act
concerning any matter which is entitled to protection as a trade
secret.
C. 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.
D. 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
including "Oklahoma Rejected" or "Oklahoma Retained" tags;
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 rabbit, 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, pursuant to the Oklahoma Rabbit and Rabbit
Products Inspection Act when, in fact, it has, respectively, not
been so inspected and passed, or exempted.
A. On and after September 1, 1989, no person shall:
1. slaughter any rabbit or process any rabbit 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 the Oklahoma Rabbit and Rabbit Products
Inspection Act; and
2. sell, transport, offer for sale or transportation, or
receive for transportation, in intrastate commerce or from an
official establishment, any slaughtered rabbit from which the blood,
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.
B. No person shall:
1. sell, transport, offer for sale or transportation, or
receive for transportation, in intrastate commerce:
a. any rabbit 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 rabbit products required to be inspected pursuant
to the Oklahoma Rabbit and Rabbit Products Inspection
Act unless they have been so inspected and passed;
Oklahoma Statutes - Title 2. Agriculture Page 315
2. perform any act which is intended to cause or has the effect
of causing such rabbit or rabbit products to be adulterated or
misbranded;
3. 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 the Oklahoma Rabbit and Rabbit Products Inspection Act
concerning any matter which is entitled to protection as a trade
secret.
C. 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.
D. 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
including "Oklahoma Rejected" or "Oklahoma Retained" tags;
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 rabbit, 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, pursuant to the Oklahoma Rabbit and Rabbit
Products Inspection Act when, in fact, it has, respectively, not
been so inspected and passed, or exempted.
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