A. The State Treasurer may accept or reject an agricultural linked deposit loan package or any portion of the package, based on the State Treasurer's evaluation of the eligible agricultural businesses included in the package, the amount of individual loans in the package, and the amount of the package. If the State Treasurer recommends rejection, the written recommendation shall include reasons for the rejection in a report to the State Board of Agriculture. The Board shall forward a copy of the rejection notice to the lending institution and the borrower. The borrower may be allowed to bring the application into compliance with the Board and the State Treasurer and resubmit the application. If the State Treasurer rejects the loan because sufficient funds are not available for a linked deposit, then the applications may be considered in the order received when funds are once again available subject to a review by the Board and the lending institution. In evaluating the eligible agricultural businesses, the State Treasurer shall consider the recommendation of the Board and the economic needs of the area where the business is located.
B. The State Treasurer may accept or reject an agricultural linked deposit loan package or any portion of the package, based on the agricultural business's debt-to-asset ratio. The State Treasurer shall have the authority to establish quarterly, based on the availability of funds, a minimum debt-to-asset ratio of not less than forty percent (40%), nor more than fifty-five percent (55%), required to qualify as an at-risk farm or ranch business.
C. Upon acceptance of the agricultural linked deposit loan package or any portion of the package, the State Treasurer shall notify the Board, the lending institution and the borrower. Upon acceptance, the State Treasurer may place certificates of deposit with the eligible lending institution at a rate below current market rates, as determined and calculated by the State Treasurer, or may invest in bonds, notes, debentures, or other obligations or securities issued by the federal farm credit bank with respect to the eligible lending institution at a rate below current market rates, as determined and calculated by the State Treasurer. When necessary, the State Treasurer may place certificates of deposit or may invest in obligations or securities prior to acceptance of an agricultural linked deposit loan package.
D. 1. The eligible lending institution shall enter into an agricultural linked deposit agreement with the State Treasurer, that shall include requirements necessary to implement the purposes of the Oklahoma Agricultural Linked Deposit Program. The requirements shall include an agreement by the eligible lending institution to lend an amount equal to the agricultural linked deposit to eligible agricultural businesses at an interest rate that reflects a percentage rate reduction below the present borrowing rate applicable to each specific agricultural business in the accepted loan package that is equal to the percentage rate reduction below market rates at which the certificates of deposit that constitute the agricultural linked deposit were placed or at which the investments in bonds, notes, debentures, or other obligations or securities that constitute the agricultural linked deposit were made. The requirements shall also reflect the market conditions prevailing in the eligible lending institution's lending area.
2. The agreement may include a specification of the period of time in which the lending institution is to lend funds upon the placement of a linked deposit, and shall include provisions for the certificates of deposit to be placed or the investment in bonds, notes, debentures, obligations, or securities to be made for any maturity considered appropriate by the State Treasurer not to exceed two (2) years and may be renewed for up to an additional three renewals not to exceed two (2) years each at the option of the State Treasurer. Two additional renewals may be approved by the State Treasurer up to a total duration of participation of twelve (12) years, but new eligible participants and eligible participants who have had linked deposit loans for less than eight (8) years shall have priority over renewals. No renewals will be allowed unless the amount of principal has been reduced by a minimum of five percent (5%) and all interest paid to date from the time of the prior loan or renewal. Interest shall be paid at the times determined by the State Treasurer.
Added by Laws 1987, c. 182, § 7, eff. Feb. 1, 1988. Amended by Laws 1993, c. 86, § 1, eff. July 1, 1993; Laws 1995, c. 88, § 2, eff. July 1, 1995; Laws 1999, c. 4, § 1, eff. July 1, 1999; Laws 2001, c. 146, § 105, emerg. eff. April 30, 2001. Renumbered from § 1767 of this title by Laws 2001, c. 146, § 259, emerg. eff. April 30, 2001.
Structure Oklahoma Statutes
§2-1-2. State Department of Agriculture - Establishment - Composition.
§2-2-1. Membership - Appointment and qualifications - Vacancies.
§2-2-2. Compensation - Meetings.
§2-2-4b. Reciprocal agreements.
§2-2-4c. Livestock policy implementation – Restriction on local orders, ordinances, and regulations.
§2-2-4e. Confidentiality of electronic mail addresses.
§2-2-6. Advisory or consulting committees - Appointment.
§2-2-7. Records and files as evidence – Enforcement of penalties and fines.
§2-2-8. Certified copies as evidence.
§2-2-9. Cooperative contracts and agreements - Grading, sampling or inspection - Fees.
§2-2-10. Department of Agriculture Revolving Fund - Disbursements - Claims.
§2-2-12. Unpaid checks - Uncollectable debts.
§2-2-14. Authority to enter - Proper actions - Warrants.
§2-2-14.1. Seizure and forfeiture of property.
§2-2-14.2. Abandoned or stolen property--Storage--Disposal.
§2-2-16. Duties of district attorney or Attorney General.
§2-2-16.1. Livestock Offender Registry.
§2-2-18. Notice - Hearings - Penalties.
§2-2-18.1. Pollution of air, land, or waters - Order to cease - Administrative penalty.
§2-2-18.3. Survey of agriculture producers – Water quality issues.
§2-2-26. Agriculture Emergency Insect Control Special Fund.
§2-2-27. Department of Agriculture State Indemnity Special Fund.
§2-2-27.1. Agriculture Evidence and Law Enforcement Fund.
§2-2-31. Independent agricultural tourism organization plan – Required provisions – Report date.
§2-2A-1. Short title - Purpose - Applicability - Water programs.
§2-2A-3. Authority of Board to promulgate rules - Powers of Department.
§2-2A-4. Disclosure of interest in regulated entities.
§2-2A-5. Director of the Agricultural Pollutant Discharge Elimination System.
§2-2A-6. Discharge of pollutant into state waters - Schedule of compliance and conditions - Permits.
§2-2A-8. Rules for storm water discharges.
§2-2A-10. Application for permit - Compliance with local ordinances, rules or requirements.
§2-2A-23. Rules designating application tiers.
§2-2A-24. Powers and duties of Department.
§2-2A-26. Tier II or III applications - Draft denial or permit.
§2-2A-27. Public meeting on draft denial or permit.
§2-3-32.3. Plant pests - Sale - Notice.
§2-3-32.4. Nursery stock shipments - Inspection certificates.
§2-3-32.5. Vegetable plants and transplants - Identification.
§2-3-32.6. Turfgrass sod - Identification.
§2-3-32.7. Licenses - Inspection fees.
§2-3-50.2. Declaration - Purpose.
§2-3-50.4. Review by Commissioner and State Board of Agriculture.
§2-3-50.5. Oklahoma Boll Weevil Eradication Organization - Formation - Status - Membership.
§2-3-50.6. Board of directors - Election procedure.
§2-3-50.8. Certification of acreage in program.
§2-3-50.9a. Collection of assessment.
§2-3-50.10. Boll Weevil Eradication Fund.
§2-3-50.15. Cooperation with other entities - Written agreements.
§2-3-50.16. Right of entry - Inspections and other activities - Warrants.
§2-3-50.18. Destruction of cotton - Volunteer or noncommercial cotton.
§2-3-50.19. Unlawful acts - Moving infested article into state - Penalties.
§2-3-50.20. Violations - Penalties.
§2-3-50.30. Review and evaluation of boll weevil eradication efforts.
§2-3-82.1. Unwanted Pesticide Disposal Fund.
§2-3-83. Keeping of records – Board audits.
§2-3-84. Declaration of pest – Rules - Requirements.
§2-3-101. Enforcement of act - Powers of Board.
§2-3-103. Quarantine – Declaration of bee disease or pest - Order to destroy.
§2-3-106. Sales and transport of apiaries, equipment, bees, or hives.
§2-3-113. Voluntary registration program – Location of new apiaries – Abandoned apiaries.
§2-3-117. Inspection fee - Inspection procedures.
§2-3-117.1. Requirements for transport of bees into state.
§2-3-122. Hearing - Emergency order.
§2-3-123. Retention of Africanized honeybees prohibited - Exception.
§2-3-124. Certified Beekeeper Program - European Honeybee Certification Program.
§2-3-125. Local laws on honeybee hives not authorized – Apiary zoning exception.
§2-3-130. Tick eradication program - Funding.
§2-3-211. Weed Free Hay Certification Act.
§2-3-213. Promulgation of rules.
§2-3-214. Inspector training cooperative agreements – Federal funding.
§2-3-215. Weed-free certification – Inspection.
§2-3-220. Noxious weeds - Eradication.
§2-3-310. Castor bean production - Ricin.
§2-3-311. Castor bean transportation - Ricin.
§2-3-401. Short title - Oklahoma Industrial Hemp Program.
§2-3-403. Licensee authorization – Exemption from criminal liability.
§2-3-404. License application – Rules and requirements.
§2-3-406.1. Processing as Cannabidiol .
§2-3-407. Inspection and sampling.
§2-3-408. Causes to deny, revoke or suspend a license.
§2-3-410. Oklahoma Industrial Hemp Program Fund.
§2-3-411. Cannabidiol sourcing.
§2-3-601. Short title - Oklahoma Industrial Hemp Remediation Program - Definitions.
§2-4-3. Approval of brands - Certificates - Conflicts - Brand book.
§2-4-4. Custodian of county brand books - Certified copies - Fees.
§2-4-5. Application for registration - Fees - Contents.
§2-4-6. Use of unregistered brands - Duplication.
§2-4-7. Publication of revised book - Reregistration - Fees - Copies to officials.
§2-4-8. Brands in current edition as prima facie evidence of ownership.
§2-4-9. Questionable ownership of animals at markets - Withholding of funds pending determination.
§2-4-10. Brands reserved to state.
§2-4-11. Brands in current edition subject to sale, transfer, etc. - Recording - Fees.
§2-4-12. Sale of branded livestock - Written transfer of ownership.
§2-4-20. Animal Identification Program.
§2-5-2. Program of marketing services.
§2-5-3.1. Short title – Oklahoma Agriculture Enhancement and Diversification Program.
§2-5-3.2. Purpose and categories of Oklahoma Agriculture Enhancement and Diversification Program.
§2-5-3.4. Grants or loan funds – Applications – Evaluation criteria – Proprietary information.
§2-5-3A.1. Short title - Oklahoma Farmers Market and Farmers Hub Act.
§2-5-3A.3. Requirements for registered farmers market.
§2-5-3A.4. Permissible products at registered farmers markets.
§2-5-3A.5. Requirements for registered farmers hub – Farm-direct marketer.
§2-5-3A.6. Promulgation of rules.
§2-5-4.1. Short title - Homemade Food Freedom Act.
§2-5-4.3. Conditions for exemption from licensing and other requirements.
§2-5-4.4. Reported foodborne illness – Investigation by State Department of Health.
§2-5-6. Marketing information and news services.
§2-5-9. "Made in Oklahoma" and "Grown in Oklahoma" program - Specifications.
§2-5-12. Oklahoma Agritourism Program.
§2-5-13. Agritourism Revolving Fund.
§2-5-14. Short title – Oklahoma Agritourism Activities Liability Limitations Act.
§2-5-16. Liability of agritourism professionals and exceptions.
§2-5-17a. Rights to engage in agritourism activities – Requirements and regulations.
§2-5-18. Short title - Farmers Market Liability Limitation Act.
§2-5-20. Limitation of liability – Exceptions.
§2-5-59. Oklahoma Trade Development program – Establishment – Participating entities - Purpose.
§2-5-60.2. Legislative findings.
§2-5-60.3. Oklahoma Farm to School Program – Agency staff to implement.
§2-5-60.4. Duties of director.
§2-5-60.6. Authority to promulgate rules.
§2-5-60.10. Short title - Oklahoma Agricultural Commodity Act.
§2-5-60.13. Petition for certification – Public hearing.
§2-5-60.14. Commodity producers board – Ballot – Notice by publication – Written notice.
§2-5-60.16. Preparation and distribution of ballots - Contents.
§2-5-60.17. Expenses - Reimbursement.
§2-5-60.18. Exemption from assessment.
§2-5-60.19. Contest of election – Voting of ballots - Overstatement of volume of production.
§2-5-60.20. Determination of election results.
§2-5-60.21. Certification of adoption or defeat of referendum proposition.
§2-5-60.23. Establishment of board upon certification of referendum results.
§2-5-60.24. Meeting and organization of board – Terms of office.
§2-5-60.25. Officers of board - Bond.
§2-5-60.26. Powers and duties of board - Rules.
§2-5-60.27. Annual budget – Audits – Annual reports – State budget and expenditure limitations.
§2-5-60.28. Assessments, donations and grants – Purpose of expenditures.
§2-5-60.29. Collection of assessment.
§2-5-60.31. Increase of maximum rate of assessment – Abolition of assessment - Referendum.
§2-5-60.32. Failure to remit assessment – Proceedings to recover.
§2-5-60.33. Violations – Injunction – Costs and attorney fees.
§2-5-60.34. Exemption from requirements of act.
§2-5-60.36. Transfer of funds, equipment, and property to successor organization.
§2-5-63.1. Short title - Commodity Research Enhancement Act.
§2-5-63.3. Petition for state assessment referendum.
§2-5-63.4. State assessment referendum.
§2-5-63.5. Statewide basis - Eligible voters.
§2-5-63.8. Exemptions for producers.
§2-5-63.10. Ballot determinations.
§2-5-63.11. Referendum certification.
§2-5-63.12. Federally approved commodity board - Powers and duties.
§2-5-63.13. Assessment funds - Yearly report.
§2-5-63.14. Receipt of funds - Expenses - Restrictions on use of funds.
§2-5-63.15. State assessment collection.
§2-5-63.16. Application for refund.
§2-5-63.18. Failure to remit state assessment.
§2-5-81. Short title - Purpose of program.
§2-5-84. Dissemination of information about program.
§2-5-85. Administration of program - Annual report.
§2-5-88. Funding of loan - Loan rate - Certification of compliance.
§2-5-89. Liability of state for payment of loan.
§2-5-91. Short title - Implementation.
§2-5-94. Powers and duties of Council.
§2-5-100. Legislative finding and declaration.
§2-5-102. Cause of action for damages.
§2-5-105. Offenses - Applicability of section to actions taken by government agencies.
§2-5-107. Oklahoma Meat Consumer Protection Act – Definitions – Misleading or deceptive practices.
§2-5-111. Legislative finding and declaration.
§2-5-112. Standard of care for producer of livestock - Rebuttable presumption.
§2-5-120. Short title - Urban Gardens Grant Act.
§2-5-122. Urban Gardens Grant Revolving Fund.
§2-5-123. Eligibility for grants.
§2-5-201. Short title — Healthy Food Financing Act.
§2-5-204. Healthy Food Financing Revolving Fund.
§2-5-205. Administration — Duties — Eligible projects – Financing.
§2-5-307. False representation as organic product - Stop-sale orders – Fines and penalties.
§2-5-502. Legislative findings.
§2-5-504. Assistance to individuals affected by disability - Services.
§2-5-506. Oklahoma AgrAbility Project Fund.
§2-6-2. Official livestock and poultry disease control agency - Authority of State Veterinarian.
§2-6-3. Destruction of diseased livestock - Appraisal - Payment.
§2-6-4. Disinfecting of livestock and places - Cost - Liens.
§2-6-5. Reports of contagious or infectious animal diseases – Release of information.
§2-6-6. Importing or possessing exotic swine - Misdemeanor – Exceptions.
§2-6-27. Feeding garbage to swine.
§2-6-91. Formulation of control and eradication program.
§2-6-93. Blood samples for brucellosis testing – Official identification – Reports.
§2-6-95. Brucellosis Milk Surveillance test.
§2-6-96. Officially vaccinated animals - Identification.
§2-6-97. Biological products containing Brucella organisms.
§2-6-99. Quarantine of livestock infected with brucellosis - Disposition.
§2-6-100. Brucellosis eradication - Livestock owner requirements - Indemnity payments.
§2-6-101. Certification of brucellosis-free herds and counties.
§2-6-102. Sale of bovine animals or removal from markets – Compliance records.
§2-6-107. Swine identification verification – Testing requirements.
§2-6-124. Livestock infected or exposed - Order of quarantine – Notice – Waiving of quarantine.
§2-6-125. Moving of livestock in or out of quarantine area - Penalties.
§2-6-133. Eradication and control program.
§2-6-135. Restrictions on biological products.
§2-6-141. Branding and tagging of tubercular cattle.
§2-6-142. Sale or disposition of bovine animals affected with tuberculosis.
§2-6-143. Tuberculin tests - Refusal to comply - Quarantine.
§2-6-147. Classification - Slaughtering.
§2-6-149. Exemptions from indemnity payments.
§2-6-152. Inspection and quarantine – Condemnation – Quarantine release.
§2-6-153. Documentation to accompany shipments – Information for exibition.
§2-6-182.1. Standards for producers that market and sell beef and bison in intrastate commerce.
§2-6-184. Postmortem inspection - Marking or stamping.
§2-6-185. Inspection – Limitation of entry.
§2-6-186. Meat food products - Inspection - Access - Marking or stamping.
§2-6-188. Establishments - Inspections - Sanitary conditions.
§2-6-189. Nighttime inspections.
§2-6-190. Compliance with act - Acts prohibited.
§2-6-191. Forging of official marks or certificates.
§2-6-193. Appointment of inspectors - Rules and regulations.
§2-6-194. Bribery - Penalties.
§2-6-196. Storing and handling - Regulations.
§2-6-197. Articles not intended as human food.
§2-6-199. Registration of certain businesses.
§2-6-200. Dead, dying or disabled animals - Regulations concerning.
§2-6-201. Cooperation with Federal Government.
§2-6-202. Refusal or withdrawal of inspection.
§2-6-203. Detention of animals or products.
§2-6-204. Seizure and condemnation.
§2-6-205. District courts - Jurisdiction.
§2-6-206. Interference with persons engaged in official duties - Penalties.
§2-6-207. Violations and penalties.
§2-6-209. Application of act with respect to Federal Meat Inspection Act.
§2-6-213. Administration of Meat Inspection Act and Poultry Product Inspection Act.
§2-6-214. Oklahoma certified beef defined.
§2-6-215. Certified beef label requirement.
§2-6-255. Cooperative efforts.
§2-6-256. Antemortem and postmortem inspection in official establishments - Condemnation - Appeals.
§2-6-258. Marking and labeling.
§2-6-260. Compliance with act.
§2-6-263. Notice of violations.
§2-6-264. Storage and handling regulations.
§2-6-266. Limitation on entry of products into official establishment.
§2-6-267. Withdrawal or refusal of inspection service.
§2-6-268. Detention of products.
§2-6-269. Seizure and condemnation.
§2-6-270. Jurisdiction of district courts - Subpoenas.
§2-6-271. Powers of Board - Penalties.
§2-6-280.4. Board - Powers and duties.
§2-6-280.8. Denaturing of rabbits and rabbit products.
§2-6-280.9. Records - Inspection - Maintenance.
§2-6-280.10. Prohibitions relating to processing, transportation and sale of rabbits.
§2-6-280.11. Suspension of plant approval - Denial or withdrawal of inspection service.
§2-6-280.12. Detention of certain rabbits and rabbit products.
§2-6-280.13. Violations - Notice - Hearing - Orders - Service of process.
§2-6-280.14. Violations - Penalties.
§2-6-280.15. Good faith violations - Alternatives to prosecution.
§2-6-285. Shipment restrictions.
§2-6-290.2. Legislative findings and policy.
§2-6-290.4. Board - Powers and duties.
§2-6-290.6. Operation of slaughtering plant - Approval of plant - Compliance with act.
§2-6-290.7. Inspection service and inspections.
§2-6-290.12. Violations - Penalties.
§2-6-290.13. Penalties - Limitations on application - Minor violations.
§2-6-291. Exotic livestock disease control - Official agency.
§2-6-303. Livestock trailers to be identified by number or driver license number.
§2-6-310. Agriculture law enforcement agents.
§2-6-311. License - Construction of act - Restricted aquatic species.
§2-6-312. Technical assistance.
§2-6-313. Confinement and separation from wild species.
§2-6-314. Inspections - Summary of aquatic species produced and marketed.
§2-6-316. Application for license - Proofs required - Revocation.
§2-6-402. Quarantine zones of control.
§2-6-403. Orders restricting movement of persons, livestock, machinery, and personal property.
§2-6-504. Farmed cervidae facility license.
§2-6-506. Escaped farmed cervidae.
§2-6-507. Violations of act - Transportation of live cervidae.
§2-6-508. Slaughter of farmed cervidae – Disposition of hides or antlers.
§2-6-510. Emergency orders - Compliance – Hearings – Review of order, priority.
§2-6-511. Wrongfully injure - Farmed carvidae facility - Remove from premises.
§2-6-512. Prelicensing inspection.
§2-6-513. Written complaint procedures.
§2-6-514. Denial, revocation, cancelation, or suspension of license.
§2-6-515. Disposal of cervidae - Cleaning of premises.
§2-6-606. Taking and removal of feral swine.
§2-6-608. Importation - USDA permit - Slaughter following positive test results.
§2-6-610. Violations of act – Penalties.
§2-6-612. Restraint by owner - Damages recoverable.
§2-6-613. Ownership of feral swine.
§2-6-614. Legislative encouragement of Judas pig tagging system.
§2-7-22. Requirement of escrow account - Notice - Deposits - Commingling of monies.
§2-7-23. Conditions of purchase of raw milk.
§2-7-25. Liability of milk processor.
§2-7-26. Failure to establish escrow account - Failure to continue payments - Penalties.
§2-7-402. Purpose - Public policy.
§2-7-405. Commissioner - Power and duty.
§2-7-406. Sale of Grade A milk and milk products.
§2-7-407. Adulterated or misbranded milk or milk product.
§2-7-409. Sampling and testing.