Violations.

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It shall be unlawful for any person to knowingly or willfully violate any of the provisions of this subarticle or any rules of the State Board of Agriculture by:

1. Misrepresenting to another their connection with a nursery, or to:

  • a.misrepresent the grade, character, variety, or quality of any nursery stock,
  • b.make a false declaration of acreage,
  • c.conceal any nursery stock from inspection, or
  • d.offer for sale nursery stock which is seriously or substantially devitalized;

2. Failing to furnish the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food, and Forestry with true and exact copies of order forms, contracts, and agreements with customers;

3. Failing to furnish each purchaser, upon request, a true and correct invoice of each purchase, stating the variety, quality, age, or size of the stock to which the invoice applies;

4. Selling, offering for sale, or distributing any nursery stock infected or infested with a plant pest;

5. Selling, offering for sale, or distributing nursery stock that is not healthy, sound, and capable of growth;

6. Failing to carry out treatment or destruction of nursery stock as ordered by the Board;

7. Misrepresenting or falsifying information on a license application;

8. Doing business without a valid license;

9. Allowing a license to be used by any person other than the person to whom it was issued;

10. Failing to notify the Board of the legal description of all growing locations of nursery stock or sod;

11. Failing to allow an authorized agent to complete an inspection or collect adequate samples;

12. Selling nursery stock restricted by a stop sale order;

13. Selling, moving, or distributing nursery stock or other material under a quarantine;

14. Mislabeling nursery stock by using the wrong common name or botanical name;

15. Transporting any regulated article into the state from a quarantined area of any other state or country when the article has not been treated or handled as provided by the requirements of the quarantine;

16. Interfering with, hindering, or impeding, by any method, any authorized agent of the Board in the performance of duties;

17. Falsifying or using false information to ship nursery stock out of Oklahoma into any other state in the United States or any country outside of the United States or making a false statement regarding the condition, quality, grade, character, variety, or treatment used; or

18. Failing to comply with any order of the Board.

Added by Laws 2000, c. 367, § 8, emerg. eff. June 6, 2000. Amended by Laws 2007, c. 200, § 3, eff. Nov. 1, 2007.


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