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| 88 | + | hatcheries, or sales of dairy products by any oth er business except |
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| 90 | + | 2. Livestock, including cattle, horses, mules, or other |
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| 91 | + | domestic or draft animals, sold by the producer by private treaty or |
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| 94 | + | in the commercial production of chickens, turkeys, and eggs,; |
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| 103 | + | of producing eggs, poultry, milk, or meat for human |
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| 106 | + | fed to and which is fed by the purchaser to horses, |
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| 107 | + | mules, or other domestic or draft animals used |
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| 136 | + | c. any stock tonics, water purifying products, stock |
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| 137 | + | sprays, disinfectants , or other such agricultural |
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| 138 | + | supplies. |
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| 139 | + | “Poultry” shall not be construed to include any fowl other than |
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| 140 | + | domestic fowl kept and raised for the market or production of eggs . |
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| 144 | + | feed that is to be used and in fact is used for a purpose that would |
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| 145 | + | bring about an exemption hereunder e xecutes an invoice or sales |
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| 147 | + | Commission. The purchaser may demand and receive a copy of the |
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| 148 | + | invoice or sales ticket and the vendor shall retain a copy; |
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| 150 | + | agricultural products. Sale of the following items shall be subject |
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| 155 | + | b. sales of agricultural fertilizer to any person engaged |
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| 156 | + | in the business of applying such materials on a |
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| 157 | + | contract or custom basis to land owned or leased and |
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| 158 | + | operated by persons regularly engaged, for profit, in |
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| 159 | + | the business of farming or ranching. In addition to |
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| 186 | + | providing the vendor proof of eligibility as provided |
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| 187 | + | in Section 1358.1 of this title, the purchaser shall |
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| 188 | + | provide the name or names of such own er or lessee and |
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| 189 | + | operator and the location of the lands on which said |
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| 192 | + | biologicals to persons engaged in the business of |
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| 207 | + | packaged and sold for use in noncommercial flower and |
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| 237 | + | of farming or ranching. For the purposes of this |
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| 241 | + | mitigating any insect, snail, slug, rodent, bird, |
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| 243 | + | terrestrial or aquatic plant or animal life or virus, |
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| 244 | + | bacteria, or other microorganism, except viruses, |
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| 245 | + | bacteria, or other microorganisms on or in liv ing man, |
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| 247 | + | use as a plant regulator, defoliant , or desiccant. |
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| 254 | + | production, cultivation, planting, s owing, harvesting, processing, |
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| 255 | + | spraying, preservation, or irrigation of any livestock, poul try, |
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| 256 | + | agricultural, or dairy products produced from such lands. The |
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| 258 | + | machinery, repair parts, or fuel, oil, lubricants, and other |
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| 287 | + | spraying, preservation, or irrigation of any livestock, poultry, |
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| 288 | + | agricultural, or dairy products for f armers or ranchers. The |
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| 290 | + | 7. Sales of supplies, machinery , and equipment to persons |
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| 291 | + | regularly engaged in the business of raising evergreen trees for |
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| 292 | + | retail sale in which such trees are cut do wn on the premises by the |
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| 299 | + | will be used directly in the production of any livestock , including, |
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| 300 | + | but not limited to, facilities used in the prod uction and storage of |
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| 301 | + | feed for livestock owned by the permit holder. Any person making |
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| 302 | + | purchases on behalf of the agr icultural permit holder shall certify, |
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| 304 | + | retained by the vendor , that the purchases are made for and on |
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| 306 | + | of such holder. Any pers on who wrongfully or erroneously certifies |
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| 308 | + | otherwise violates this subsection shall be guilty of a misdeme anor |
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| 347 | + | 200.1 of Title 3A of the Oklahoma Statutes shall not be exempt |
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