§ 2-6-280.10 — Prohibitions relating to processing, transportation

and sale of rabbits. A. On and after September 1, 1989, no person shall: 1. slaughter any rabbit or process any rabbit 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 Oklahoma Rabbit and Rabbit Products Inspection Act; and 2. sell, transport, offer for sale or transportation, or receive for transportation, in intrastate commerce or from an official establishment, any slaughtered rabbit from which the blood, feet, head, or 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, in intrastate commerce: a. any rabbit 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 rabbit products required to be inspected pursuant to the Oklahoma Rabbit and Rabbit 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 rabbit or rabbit 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 Oklahoma Rabbit and Rabbit 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 rabbit, 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 6. knowingly represent that any article has been inspected and passed, or exempted, pursuant to the Oklahoma Rabbit and Rabbit Products Inspection Act when, in fact, it has, respectively, not been so inspected and passed, or exempted.

Legislative History

Added by Laws 1989, c. 170, § 10, operative July 1, 1989.