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.
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