Okla. Stat. tit. 2, § 2-6-290.4

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Board - Powers and duties

Official statutory text

In addition to any powers and duties of the Board provided for

by law, the Board shall have the power and duty to:

1. Adopt and promulgate regulations necessary to provide for

the proper inspection of exotic livestock and exotic livestock

products, and prescribe conditions under which carcasses, parts of

carcasses, exotic livestock meat and exotic livestock products

capable of use as human food, shall be stored, labeled, marked or

otherwise handled by any person engaged in the business of buying,

selling, freezing, storing, or transporting, in or for intrastate

commerce;

2. Cooperate with the Secretary of Agriculture of the United

States in effectuating the purposes of the Exotic Livestock and

Exotic Livestock Products Inspection Act;

3. Appoint inspectors to make examination and inspection of

exotic livestock, exotic livestock carcasses, all exotic livestock

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meat and exotic livestock products, and the sanitary conditions of

all plants or establishments in which exotic livestock meat and

exotic livestock products are prepared;

4. Detain and seize exotic livestock or exotic livestock

carcasses or exotic livestock products pursuant to the provisions of

the Exotic Livestock and Exotic Livestock Products Inspection Act;

5. Require reports from all persons subject to the provisions

of the Exotic Livestock and Exotic Livestock Products Inspection

Act;

6. Suspend inspection service pursuant to the provisions of the

Exotic Livestock and Exotic Livestock Products Inspection Act;

7. Establish and enforce administrative penalties pursuant to

Section 11-1 of Title 2 of the Oklahoma Statutes;

8. Enter upon any public or private property for purposes of

inspecting and investigating compliance with the Exotic Livestock

and Exotic Livestock Products Inspection Act;

9. Refuse to render inspection services to any establishment

whose premises, facilities, or equipment, or the operation thereof,

fail to meet the requirements of the Exotic Livestock and Exotic

Livestock Products Inspection Act;

10. Institute or cause to be instituted any necessary legal

proceedings with the Office of the Attorney General or in any court

of competent jurisdiction for an injunction relief to enforce the

provisions of the Exotic Livestock and Exotic Livestock Products

Inspection Act; and

11. Exercise all incidental powers which are necessary and

proper to perform the duties of the Board pursuant to the Exotic

Livestock and Exotic Livestock Products Inspection Act.

Status: in_force · Read it on the official government site

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