A. The Exotic Livestock and Exotic Livestock Products Inspection Act shall apply to:

1. Any person that engages in the business of slaughtering any exotic livestock or processing, freezing, packaging, or labeling any carcasses, or parts or products of carcasses, of any exotic livestock for use as human food or animal food. The provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to:

a.the slaughtering of exotic livestock owned and raised by a person who prepares and transports the carcasses of exotic livestock or parts of exotic livestock exclusively for his own use or for use by members of his household or his nonpaying guests or employees, or

b.except as otherwise provided by this section, any person who slaughters exotic livestock or processes or otherwise handles exotic livestock products which have been or are to be processed as required by recognized religious dietary laws.

(1)Any person desiring such exemption shall make application to the Oklahoma State Department of Agriculture. The application shall be in such form and contain such information as is required by the Board.

(2)The Board may impose such conditions as to sanitary standards, practices, and procedures in granting such exemption as it deems necessary to effectuate the purposes of the Exotic Livestock and Exotic Livestock Products Inspection Act. Any person who processes exotic livestock or exotic livestock products under exemption from certain requirements as provided in this division shall be subject to all of the other applicable provisions of the Exotic Livestock and Exotic Livestock Products Inspection Act and the regulations promulgated pursuant thereto.

(3)Processing plants shall meet the sanitary requirements set forth in the Exotic Livestock and Exotic Livestock Products Inspection Act and shall be required to qualify for inspection and operate as official establishments;

2. Any person who engages in the business of buying or selling, as exotic livestock products brokers, wholesalers, or otherwise, or transporting or storing any carcasses, or parts or products of carcasses, of any exotic livestock; or

3. Any person who engages in business as a renderer, or engages in the business of buying, selling, or transporting any dead, dying, disabled, or diseased exotic livestock or parts of the carcasses of any exotic livestock that died otherwise than by slaughter.

B. 1. Any person who is engaged in business specified in this subsection shall be registered with the Board:

a.as a meat broker, renderer, or animal food manufacturer, or engage in business in such commerce as a wholesaler of any carcasses, or parts or products of the carcasses, of any exotic livestock whether intended for human food or other purposes; or

b.as a public warehouseman storing any such articles in or for such commerce, or engage in the business of buying, selling, or transporting in such commerce any dead, dying, disabled, or diseased animals of the specified kinds, or parts of the carcasses of any such animals that died otherwise than by slaughter.

2. The application for registration shall contain the name of such person, address of each place of business at which and all trade names under which such person conducts such business and such other information deemed necessary by the Board.

C. Any person, firm, or corporation who is engaged in the business of buying, selling, or transporting dead, dying, disabled, or diseased animals, or any parts of the carcasses of any animals that died otherwise than by slaughter, shall buy, sell, transport, offer for sale or transportation, or receive for transportation, in such commerce, any dead, dying, disabled, or diseased exotic livestock or parts of the carcasses of any such animals that died otherwise than by slaughter, shall comply with such regulations as the Board prescribes to assure that such animals, or the unwholesome parts or products thereof, will be prevented from being used for human food purposes.

D. On and after September 1, 1991, no exotic livestock products intended for human food shall be allowed to be sold in this state without:

1. First being inspected and approved by:

a.the United States Department of Agriculture,

b.the Oklahoma State Department of Agriculture, or

c.a program from another state approved by the Board; or

2. Having been legally imported into this state pursuant to existing laws of the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act.

Added by Laws 1991, c. 231, § 5, eff. Sept. 1, 1991. Amended by Laws 1992, c. 101, § 3, emerg. eff. April 20, 1992.