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

1. Adopt and promulgate regulations necessary to provide for the proper inspection of exotic livestock and exotic livestock products, and prescribe conditions under which carcasses, parts of carcasses, exotic livestock meat and exotic livestock 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 Exotic Livestock and Exotic Livestock Products Inspection Act;

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

4. Detain and seize exotic livestock or exotic livestock carcasses or exotic livestock products pursuant to the provisions of the Exotic Livestock and Exotic Livestock Products Inspection Act;

5. Require reports from all persons subject to the provisions of the Exotic Livestock and Exotic Livestock Products Inspection Act;

6. Suspend inspection service pursuant to the provisions of the Exotic Livestock and Exotic Livestock 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 Exotic Livestock and Exotic Livestock 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 Exotic Livestock and Exotic Livestock 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 Exotic Livestock and Exotic Livestock Products Inspection Act; and

11. Exercise all incidental powers which are necessary and proper to perform the duties of the Board pursuant to the Exotic Livestock and Exotic Livestock Products Inspection Act.

Added by Laws 1991, c. 231, § 4, eff. Sept. 1, 1991.