Okla. Stat. tit. 2, § 2-6-290.9

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Unlawful acts

Official statutory text

A. On and after September 1, 1991, no person shall:

1. Slaughter any exotic livestock or process any exotic

livestock 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 Exotic

Livestock and Exotic Livestock Products Inspection Act; and

2. Sell, transport, offer for sale or transportation, or

receive for transportation from an official establishment, any

slaughtered exotic livestock from which the blood, feet, head, or

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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:

a. any exotic livestock 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 exotic livestock products required to be inspected

pursuant to the Exotic Livestock and Exotic Livestock

Products Inspection Act unless they have been so

inspected and passed;

2. Perform any act which is intended to cause or has the effect

of causing such exotic livestock or exotic livestock 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 Exotic Livestock and Exotic Livestock 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 exotic livestock, 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

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6. Knowingly represent that any article has been inspected and

passed, or exempted, pursuant to the Exotic Livestock and Exotic

Livestock Products Inspection Act when, in fact, it has not been so

inspected and passed, or exempted.

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