Title 2, Title 2 — Agriculture

Whenever a packaged commodity is advertised in any manner and the retail price is stated, a declaration of quantity shall also appear on the package closely associated with the retail price. Where a dual declaration is required, only the declaration that sets forth the quantity i…

It shall be unlawful for any person to violate any provision of this article or rules promulgated by the State Board of Agriculture. No person shall: 1. Use or have in possession for use in commerce any incorrect weight or measure; 2. Remove any tag, seal, or mark from any weight…

If a weight or measure or weighing or measuring device exists where buying or selling is commonly carried on, there shall be a rebuttable presumption that the weight, measure, or weighing or measuring device is regularly used for business purposes. Added by Laws 1976, c. 108, § 1…

The State Board of Agriculture shall establish fees for all tests and certifications made by the Bureau of Standards. The fees shall in no case exceed those established for similar work by the National Institute of Standards and Technology. The fees collected shall be deposited w…

The Bureau of Standards shall provide information for general distribution, literature, and directions regarding weights, measures and tests, and methods of weighing, measuring, and testing as recommended by the Director of the Bureau of Standards. Added by Laws 1915, c. 81, § 6.…

This article shall be known as the “Oklahoma Service Technician and Service Agency Act”. Added by Laws 1990, c. 249, § 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1991. Amended by Laws 2000, c. 243, § 67, emerg. eff. May 24, 2000. Renumbered from § 5- 62.1 of this title by Laws 2000, c. 243, § 126, emerg. e…

As used in the Oklahoma Service Technician and Service Agency Act: 1. “Commercial weighing and measuring device” means any weight or measure that is used or employed in establishing size, quantity, grade, extent, area, measurement of quantities, things, products, or articles for …

license - Applications - Categories of weights or measures - Contents of license - Termination of employment - Conviction of felony - Expiration date - Fees - Exemptions from act. A. It shall be unlawful for any person to do business as a service agency or service technician with…

When necessary for the enforcement of the Oklahoma Service Technician and Service Agency Act, the State Board of Agriculture shall have the following powers and duties: 1. Issue stop sale, stop use, hold, and removal orders with respect to any weight or measure found to be in vio…

and responsibilities. Licensed service technicians and service agencies shall: 1. Submit a placing in service report to the State Board of Agriculture within five (5) calendar days after service is provided when required by the Board; 2. Have the authority to remove an official r…

Nothing in the Oklahoma Service Technician and Service Agency Act shall prohibit a weight or measure owner or a regular employee of the owner from servicing or repairing a device. However, if the device is found out of tolerance and is rejected by the State Board of Agriculture, …

Nothing in the Oklahoma Service Technician and Service Agency Act shall prohibit a weight or measure owner or a regular employee of the owner from servicing or repairing a device. However, if the device is found out of tolerance and is rejected by the State Board of Agriculture, …

regulations, standards and evaluations. The State Board of Agriculture shall administer and enforce the provisions of the Oklahoma Service Technician and Service Agency Act and shall promulgate rules, standards and evaluations, and work performance of each category of weight or m…

issue license - Violations - Criminal penalties. A. The State Board of Agriculture may suspend, cancel, revoke, or refuse reissuance of a license after the person has an opportunity for public hearing pursuant to the Administrative Procedures Act. In addition, the person may be p…

It is declared to be the intent of this Legislature that the State Department of Agriculture administer this article in a manner which will provide protection for consumers of those goods and services which can be accurately measured, improve the quality and safety of the product…

The State Department of Agriculture is directed to establish, at the earliest practicable time, as a function of the State Department of Agriculture, analytical laboratory facilities for the following purposes: 1. Conducting analyses to determine the qualitative and quantitative …

The State Department of Agriculture shall establish tolerances for pesticidal chemicals in foodstuffs and other materials destined for human consumption or animal feeds including forage crops and grains except where tolerances are established by the State Board of Health on foods…

A. The State Department of Agriculture shall determine the days and hours of the operation of the State Department of Agriculture laboratory. The laboratory shall conduct qualitative and quantitative analyses of pesticidal residues and other chemical determinations of agricultura…

All fees collected for analytical work in the laboratory shall be deposited in the State Department of Agriculture Revolving Fund and shall be used solely to perform analytical work. Added by Laws 1965, c. 497, § 5, emerg. eff. July 19, 1965. Amended by Laws 2000, c. 243, § 23, e…

improvements - Purposes. A. Agricultural Fair Corporations may: 1. Purchase, hold or lease or otherwise acquire any quantity of land necessary for their proper operation, with such buildings and improvements as may be erected thereon; 2. Sell, lease, or otherwise dispose of such …

certification. The county commissioners shall not pay premiums except on a voucher. The voucher shall state the name of the person and the person’s address to whom the premium was awarded. The voucher must be signed by the judge who awards the premium. The voucher must also be si…

Special tax levy. The funds provided for by Sections 146 through 159 of this act shall be derived from any fund on hand, and not otherwise appropriated, in the contingent fund of the county. If the amount available in the contingent fund is insufficient then the county commission…

duties, powers and liabilities. In each county in this state in which there has been established a county free fair association under the 1937 Free Fair Act, as amended in 1939, in which county bonds for free fair purposes have been voted and issued since the effective date of th…

The board of directors of the fair association shall consist of one member from each of the commissioners’ districts in the county. If the county contains a city of over twenty thousand (20,000) population, according to the last Federal Decennial Census, the directors shall be el…

directors. A. Within thirty (30) days of the establishment of a fair association, the board of county commissioners shall, by resolution, call for an election of the fair association board of directors. Notice of the elections shall be given in a newspaper published in the county…

Organization of board. A. Upon the expiration of the term to which each director has been elected or appointed, the board of county commissioners shall: 1. Cause the filing period for the position of director to the fair board association to commence in January; and 2. Provide fo…

A. The board of directors shall have the power, authority and control over any agricultural and industrial exposition and fair, and the management, operation and conducting of the exposition and fair. B. The board shall at the end of each calendar year, and in any event not later…

A. The president of the board of directors shall be the presiding officer of the board and shall: 1. Perform the usual duties incumbent upon such officer; and 2. Ensure compliance with all orders of the board. B. The secretary of the board shall be the recording officer and shall…

No member of the board of directors shall be paid nor receive any salary, compensation, nor emolument for his or her services in connection with such agricultural and industrial exposition and fair. The secretary shall be paid a salary to be fixed by the board of directors to be …

A. The board of directors shall: 1. Provide for holding annually at the fairgrounds of the county an agricultural and industrial exposition and fair for the purpose of exhibiting and displaying resources connected with or part of agricultural, horticultural, mineral, mechanical, …

In addition to the powers specified by law, the board of directors shall have the power and authority to provide for during the agricultural and industrial exposition and fair or at any other time: 1. Exhibitions and contests of speed, athletic skill and other events of public an…

The county commissioners at a special meeting to be held on the last day of the stock show or fair, or as soon thereafter as possible shall: 1. Audit and allow bills presented by the persons to whom premiums have been awarded, or to their order; and 2. Order the county clerk to i…

A. The board of directors is hereby given the power and authority to provide for and collect the following fees and charges: 1. A reasonable general admission fee per person, except that no admission charges or fees shall be exacted from persons exhibiting items such as natural r…

A. The county treasurer shall set up two accounts of funds in the name of the exposition and free fair: 1. One account shall be designated as “tax account”. The ad valorem taxes herein authorized to be appropriated pursuant to this section when collected shall be credited to the …

funds of existing association. A. All expenses of operating the free fair, including awards and prizes, shall be paid first from the tax account and second from the miscellaneous revenue account. Any funds remaining in the miscellaneous revenue account shall be appropriated for t…

A. It shall be the mandatory duty of the board of county commissioners of any counties to include in the estimates of needs for any such counties for each fiscal year, whether an exposition and fair is held in such year or not: 1. Unless a lesser sum is requested by the board of …

A. All property heretofore acquired by any county by virtue of the provisions of various legislative acts for expositions and free fair purposes is hereby declared to be the property of such county coming within the provisions of this article, and is hereby placed under the custo…

sites for buildings - Contracts for erection of buildings. A. The board of directors may, and if in its judgment it will be to the best interest of the people of said county, lease the grounds, buildings and equipment, or any part thereof, to any person, firm, corporation or asso…

eleemosynary purposes. The board of directors may permit the free use of the fairgrounds or any of its facilities for entertainments, exhibitions or displays of interest to the public where no admission is charged if the proceeds thereof are wholly for charitable, religious, patr…

The board of directors may accept and use gifts of money or property on behalf of the fair and use it for general free fair purposes. The board of directors may also give the donor the right to use such property for a period of time as the donor may desire. Added by Laws 1947, p.…

government bonds or notes. Any and all monies in the "Free Fair Building Fund" of any county which has been raised by levy therefor or transfer into the Fund from the sinking funds of the county may be invested by the board of county commissioners with the approval of the directo…

Corporations. The Board of Directors of any nonprofit Agricultural Fair Corporation organized under the laws of the State of Oklahoma may establish a retirement pay plan for any of its employees faithfully performing his or her duties for a period of more than thirty (30) years. …

For the purpose of cooperating with the development of agricultural, mineral and industrial resources and the educational facilities of the state, there may be established in all counties of the State of Oklahoma agricultural and industrial expositions and fairs, in the manner pr…

In any county in this state coming within the provisions of Section 15-141 of this title, the board of county commissioners may, by a resolution entered of record in the commissioners' journal of proceedings, disclose its intention to avail such county of the provisions and terms…

Authority. A. The board of county commissioners of any county qualifying, pursuant to Section 15-142 of this title, may lease the grounds, buildings, equipment and facilities owned and acquired by the county for the purpose of conducting annual agricultural and industrial fairs a…

A. The Trust Authority shall be composed of from nine to twenty-one trustees, to be determined by the board of county commissioners in multiples of three. Each county commissioner shall appoint the same number of trustees for three-year terms and such terms shall be staggered, al…

A. No trustee, officer or employee of such Public Trust Authority shall be a party either directly or indirectly, to any contract or agreement with such Public Trust Authority from which he or she may derive any personal gain or profit. B. If any contract or agreement is made in …

A. The Trust Authority shall employ a director who shall be paid a reasonable salary to be fixed by the Trust Authority. The director shall give a surety bond in the sum of not less than Fifty Thousand Dollars ($50,000.00) the specific amount to be determined by the Trust Authori…

A. The account and books of the Trust Authority, including its receipts, disbursements, contracts, mortgages, investments and other matters relating to its finances, operations and affairs shall be examined and audited not less than once each twelve (12) months by a certified pub…

- Term and conditions. A. All carnival companies or the operators of public shows that enter into any contract with any county agricultural society or county fair shall be required, within thirty (30) days after the execution of such contract, to: 1. Execute and file with the Sec…