2016 Oklahoma Statutes
Title 2. Agriculture
§2-9-136. Buying of livestock prior to consignment – Fraudulent sale of livestock.

A. No person shall buy or offer to buy livestock on the premises owned and used by a person operating a livestock auction market before the livestock has been regularly consigned for sale.

B. No person, with the intent to defraud, shall offer for sale any livestock at a livestock auction market in any name other than that of the seller. Any person, with the intent to defraud, who attempts to sell or sells livestock under a false name or a name other than that of the seller shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

C. No person shall offer for sale any livestock at a livestock auction market with the intent to defraud. For the purposes of this subsection, it shall be considered an attempt by the seller to defraud if livestock identified previously for sale are not the same livestock offered or sold at a livestock market auction. Any person convicted of violating the provisions of this subsection shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

Added by Laws 1955, p. 92, art. 9(D), § 6, emerg. eff. June 3, 1955. Amended by Laws 1961, p. 6, § 2, emerg. eff. Feb. 27, 1961; Laws 1991, c. 186, § 8, emerg. eff. May 13, 1991; Laws 2000, c. 243, § 107, emerg. eff. May 24, 2000; Laws 2009, c. 153, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2009.