Okla. Stat. tit. 2, § 2-9-162

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Packer prohibitions

Official statutory text

It shall be unlawful for any packer with respect to livestock,

meats, meat products or livestock products in unmanufactured form

to:

1. Engage in or use any unfair, unjustly discriminatory or

deceptive practice or device;

2. Sell or otherwise transfer to or for any other packer or buy

or otherwise receive from or for any other packer any article for

the purpose or with the effect of apportioning the supply between

any such persons if such apportionment has the tendency or effect of

restraining commerce or of creating a monopoly;

3. Sell or otherwise transfer to or for any other person, or

buy or otherwise receive from or for any other person, any article

for the purpose or with the effect of manipulating or controlling

prices, or of creating a monopoly in the acquisition of buying,

selling or dealing in any article, or of restraining commerce;

4. Engage in any course of business or do any act for the

purpose of or with the effect of manipulating or controlling prices,

or of creating a monopoly in the acquisition of buying, selling,

dealing in any article or of restraining commerce;

5. Conspire, combine, agree or arrange with any other person to

apportion territory for carrying on business, to apportion purchases

of any article or to manipulate or control prices; or

6. Conspire, combine, agree or arrange with any other person to

aid or abet the doing of any act made unlawful by paragraph 1, 2, 3

or 4 of this section.

Status: in_force · Read it on the official government site

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