2019 Oklahoma Statutes
Title 2. Agriculture
§2-7-403. Definitions.

As used in the Oklahoma Milk and Milk Products Act:

1. "Bulk milk hauler/sampler" means any person collecting official samples who may transport raw milk from a farm or raw milk products to or from a milk plant, receiving station, or transfer station and has in his or her possession a permit from any state to sample these products;

2. "Dairy farm" means any premises owned or operated by a "milk producer" where one or more cows or goats are kept, and from which a part or all of the milk or milk products is sold or offered for sale;

3. "Goat milk" means the lacteal secretion, practically free from colostrum, obtained by the complete milking of one or more healthy goats;

4. "Grade A milk and milk products" means milk and milk products at any stage from production through pasteurization and packaging, that are of the minimum quality and are produced, hauled, processed and distributed under conditions which meet the requirements of the Oklahoma Milk and Milk Products Act;

5. "Inhibitor" means any chemical or antibiotic substance which inhibits or retards the growth of bacteria in milk;

6. "Milk" means the lacteal secretion, practically free from colostrum, obtained by the complete milking of one or more healthy cows, which contains not less than eight and one-fourth percent (8 1/4%) milk solids-not-fat and not less than three and one-fourth percent (3 1/4%) milk fat. The term "milk" shall include goat milk, fluid market milk, and milk products for the purpose of distribution to the consumer, and may contain optional ingredients defined by the State Board of Agriculture and shall include ungraded and Grade A milk;

7. "Milk contact surface" means any pipe, tank, equipment, or facility which contacts or may contact milk during the producing, transporting, processing, or distributing of milk and milk products;

8. "Milk distribution center" means any premises, owned or operated by a "milk distributor", which distributes and sells or offers to sell milk and milk products but does not include an establishment which sells or offers to sell Grade A milk and milk products at retail;

9. "Milk facility" means the producing, processing, transporting, or distributing premises and facilities which operate under an appropriate and valid permit issued by the Commissioner, in compliance with the Oklahoma Milk and Milk Products Act and the rules of the Board;

10. "Milk fat" or "butter fat" means the fat of milk;

11. "Milk plant" means any premises owned or operated by a "milk processor" where milk or milk products are collected, manufactured, processed, pasteurized, bottled, stored, or prepared for distribution for commercial purposes including, but not limited to, a receiving or transfer station;

12. "Milk products" means those products produced or obtained from milk or any component or product of milk and defined by the Board, including Grade A milk products, ungraded raw milk and ungraded milk products;

13. "Milk tank truck cleaning facility" means any premises or establishment, separate from a milk plant, receiving station, or transfer station, where a milk tank truck is cleaned and sanitized;

14. "Milk tank truck driver" means any person transporting raw or pasteurized milk products between a milk plant, receiving station, or transfer station;

15. "Milk transportation company" means any person responsible for a milk tank truck;

16. "Pasteurized milk" means Grade A raw milk which has been pasteurized and stored in accordance with the chemical, bacteriological, and temperature standards required by the Board;

17. "Receiving station" means any premises where raw milk is received, collected, handled, stored, or cooled and prepared for further transporting;

18. "Retail food store" means any establishment which offers for retail sale packaged or bulk food goods for human consumption;

19. "Transfer station" means any establishment or premises where milk or milk products are transferred directly from one milk tank truck to another; and

20. "Ungraded milk products" and "manufacture grade milk products" include, but are not limited to, butter, cheese, dry milk, condensed milk, filled or evaporated milk, frozen dairy dessert and mello-drink products.

Added by Laws 1981, c. 43, § 3, emerg. eff. April 8, 1981. Amended by Laws 1987, c. 206, § 19, operative July 1, 1987; Laws 1987, c. 236, § 5, emerg. eff. July 20, 1987; Laws 1994, c. 140, § 6, eff. Sept. 1, 1994. Renumbered from Title 63, § 1-1301.3 by Laws 1994, c. 140, § 30, eff. Sept. 1, 1994. Amended by Laws 2000, c. 367, § 69, emerg. eff. June 6, 2000.