Section 163.19 - Labels - Attached to Container - False LabelsA. No low-point beer, as herein defined, may be sold by any licensed wholesaler or retail dealer, unless a label or other device is affixed or attached to each bottle, keg, or other container from which such beverage is immediately consumed or served, bearing the trade name of such beverage and the name and address of the manufacturer thereof. No retail dealer shall sell or dispense any beverage, as defined herein, from draught or in bulk, and not in the manufacturer's original container, unless each faucet, draught arm, or other dispensing apparatus is equipped with a sign clearly indicating the name of brand of the beverage being at the time dispensed through or by means of such faucet, draught arm, or other apparatus, and which sign shall be in legible lettering and in full sight of the purchaser.B. No person shall: 1. Transfer to any bottle, keg, or other container, any label originally attached to any bottle, keg, or other container as required by subsection A of this section;2. Print, use, utter, or attach to any such container any false label or descriptive device in imitation of or substitute for such label or device;3. Attach to any container of any substitute for any such beverage, as defined, by Section 163.1 et seq. of this title, the trade name or label of any manufacturer or wholesaler; or4. Attach to any container of such beverage any label or device which misrepresents the contents of such container or in any manner indicates the alcoholic content of said beverage or which by wording, lettering, numbering or illustration, or in any manner carries any reference, allusion, or suggestion as to the alcoholic strength of such beverage in excess of three and two-tenths percent (3.2%) by weight, or upon which appears any such word or combination of words, or abbreviations thereof, as "strong", "full strength", "high test", "high proof", "prewar strength", "full old-time alcoholic strength", or any words or figures or other marks or characters alluding or referring to "proof", "balling", or "extract" contents of the beverage, or which bears a label that is untrue in any particular, or which directly, or by ambiguity, omission, or inference tends to create a misleading impression or causes or is reasonably calculated to cause deception of the consumer or purchaser with respect to such beverage.C. Any person violating any of the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined not to exceed One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), or imprisoned in the county jail not exceeding one (1) year or shall be punished by both such fine and imprisonment.Okla. Stat. tit. 37, § 163.19
Added by Laws 1947, HB 254, p. 295, § 19; Amended by Laws 1985, SB 426, c. 259, § 2, emerg. eff. 7/15/1985; Amended by Laws 1995, SB 129, c. 274, § 31, eff. 11/1/1995.