Okla. Stat. tit. 63, § 63-1-1101

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Definitions

Official statutory text

For the purposes of this section:

1. The term "food" means:

a. articles used for food or drink for human consumption,

b. chewing gum, and

c. articles used for components of any such article.

2. The term "label" means a display of written, printed or

graphic matter upon the immediate container of any article; and a

requirement made by or under authority of this article that any

word, statement, or other information appearing on the label shall

not be considered to be complied with unless such word, statement,

or other information also appears on the outside container or

wrapper, if there be any, of the retail package of such article, or

is easily legible through the outside container or wrapper.

3. The term "immediate container" does not include package

liners.

4. The term "labeling" means all labels and other written,

printed or graphic matter:

a. upon an article or any of its containers or wrappers,

or

b. accompanying such article.

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5. If an article is alleged to be misbranded because the

labeling is misleading, or if an advertisement is alleged to be

false because it is misleading, then in determining whether the

labeling or advertisement is misleading there shall be taken into

account (among other things) not only representations made or

suggested by statement, word, design, device, sound, or in any

combination thereof, but also the extent to which the labeling or

advertisement fails to reveal facts material in the light of such

representations or material with respect to consequences which may

result from the use of the article to which the labeling or

advertisement relates, under the conditions of use prescribed in the

labeling or advertisement thereof, or under such conditions of use

as are customary or usual.

6. The term "advertisement" means all representations

disseminated in any manner or by any means, other than by labeling,

for the purpose of inducing, or which are likely to induce, directly

or indirectly, the purchase of food.

7. The term "contaminated with filth" applies to any food not

securely protected from dust, dirt, and, as far as may be necessary

by all reasonable means, from all foreign or injurious

contaminations.

8. The provisions of this article regarding the selling of food

shall be considered to include the manufacture, production,

processing, packing, exposure, offer, possession, and holding of any

such article for sale; and the sale, dispensing, and giving of any

such article, and the supplying or applying of any such articles in

the conduct of any food establishment.

9. The term "Federal Act" means the Federal Food, Drug, and

Cosmetic Act.

10. The term "mobile food establishment" means a facility

including a trailer, that prepares food and beverages, is vehicle

mounted, is road-approved by the Department of Transportation

including wheels and axles, is readily movable, and remains at one

physical address for no more than twelve (12) hours at one time,

unless the mobile food establishment is operating on private

property. A mobile food establishment operating on private property

may remain at one physical address for no more than fourteen (14)

days.

11. The term "mobile push cart" means a non-self-propelled food

unit that can be manually moved by an average person without being

vehicle mounted.

12. The term "mobile retail food establishment" means a

licensed enterprise which sells packaged foods from a stationary

display at a location some distance from the establishment but still

at the same physical address for no more than twelve (12) hours;

provided, the licensed unit is on the premises and readily available

for inspection and the food has been prepared in a facility that is

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regulated by the good manufacturing practices in Title 21 of the
lay at a location some distance from the establishment but still

at the same physical address for no more than twelve (12) hours;

provided, the licensed unit is on the premises and readily available

for inspection and the food has been prepared in a facility that is

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regulated by the good manufacturing practices in Title 21 of the

Code of Federal Regulations or pursuant to Section 310:260 of the

Oklahoma Administrative Code, Good Manufacturing Practice

Regulations, Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food, and Forestry,

and United States Department of Agriculture, or this act.

13. The term "mobile food vendor" means any person who

dispenses food or beverages from a mobile food establishment, mobile

push cart, or mobile retail food establishment.

14. The term "mobile food vending" means dispensing food or

beverages from a food vending vehicle.

15. The term "food vending vehicle" means a mobile food

establishment, mobile push cart, or mobile retail food

establishment.

16. The term "local authority" means any local government

including any town, city, charter city, political subdivision, or

county.

17. The term "public property" means any property owned and

operated by this state or a local authority for the benefit of the

public and includes all rights-of-way contained wholly within any

state or local authority parks.

18. The term "temporary mass gathering" means an actual or

reasonably anticipated assembly of three hundred (300) or more

people for an event that continues, or reasonably can be expected to

continue, for two (2) or more hours per day.

19. The term "nonobstructive spot inspection" means an

inspection of a mobile food establishment at a temporary mass

gathering that is conducted, if practicable, before the start of the

temporary mass gathering and that does not exceed ten (10) minutes

in length if conducted during a high-traffic time of the gathering.

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