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.
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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