2014 Oklahoma Statutes
Title 2. Agriculture
§2-6-280.4. Board - Powers and duties.

In addition to any powers and duties of the Board, the Board shall have the power and duty to:

1. adopt and promulgate regulations necessary to provide for the proper inspection of rabbit and rabbit products, and prescribe conditions under which carcasses, parts of carcasses, rabbit meat and rabbit products capable of use as human food, shall be stored, labeled, marked or otherwise handled by any person engaged in the business of buying, selling, freezing, storing, or transporting, in or for intrastate commerce;

2. cooperate with the Secretary of Agriculture of the United States in effectuating the purposes of the Oklahoma Rabbit and Rabbit Products Inspection Act;

3. appoint inspectors to make examination and inspection of rabbits, rabbit carcasses, all rabbit meat and rabbit products, and the sanitary conditions of all plants or establishments in which rabbit meat and rabbit products are prepared;

4. detain and seize rabbits or rabbit carcasses or rabbit products pursuant to the provisions of the Oklahoma Rabbit and Rabbit Products Inspection Act;

5. require reports from all persons subject to the provisions of the Oklahoma Rabbit and Rabbit Products Inspection Act;

6. suspend inspection service pursuant to the provisions of the Oklahoma Rabbit and Rabbit Products Inspection Act;

7. establish and enforce administrative penalties pursuant to Section 11-1 of Title 2 of the Oklahoma Statutes;

8. enter upon any public or private property for purposes of inspecting and investigating compliance with the Oklahoma Rabbit and Rabbit Products Inspection Act;

9. refuse to render inspection services to any establishment whose premises, facilities, or equipment, or the operation thereof, fail to meet the requirements of the Oklahoma Rabbit and Rabbit Products Inspection Act;

10. institute or cause to be instituted any necessary legal proceedings with the Office of the Attorney General or in any court of competent jurisdiction for an injunction relief to enforce the provisions of the Oklahoma Rabbit and Rabbit Products Inspection Act; and

11. exercise all incidental powers which are necessary and proper to perform the duties of the Board pursuant to the Oklahoma Rabbit and Rabbit Products Inspection Act.

Added by Laws 1989, c. 170, § 4, operative July 1, 1989.