No person, firm, or corporation shall engage in business, in or for intrastate commerce, 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 cattle, bison, sheep, swine, goats, horses, mules, or other equines, whether intended for human food or other purposes, or engage in business 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, unless, when required by regulations of the Board, he has registered with the Board his name, and the address of each place of business at which and all trade names under which he conducts such business. Any person who violates the provisions of this section shall, upon conviction, be guilty of a Class D3 felony offense and shall be punished by imprisonment as provided for in subsections B through F of Section 20P of Title 21 of the Oklahoma Statutes.

Laws 1968, SB 657, c. 63, § 19, emerg. eff. March 19, 1968; Amended by Laws 1985, SB 124, c. 38, § 11, eff. November 1, 1985; Amended by Laws 2025, HB 2104, c. 486, § 619, eff. January 1, 2026 (superseded document available).