GAME AND FISH
OKLAHOMA 2024 SESSION LAW SERVICE Fifty-Ninth Legislature, 2024 Second Regular Session
2024 Okla. Sess. Law Serv. Ch. 64 (H.B. 3997) (WEST)
OKLAHOMA 2024 SESSION LAW SERVICE
Fifty-Ninth Legislature, 2024 Second Regular Session
CHAPTER 64
H.B. No. 3997
GAME AND FISH
An Act relating to game and fish; amending 29 O.S. 2021, Section 5–301, as amended by Section 1, Chapter 298, O.S.L. 2022 (29 O.S. Supp. 2023, Section 5–301), which relates to the use of cyanide for predator control; removing the restriction on when cyanide may be used as a predator control device; and providing an effective date.
SUBJECT: Game and fish
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
<< OK ST T. 29 § 5–301 >>
SECTION 1. AMENDATORY 29 O.S. 2021, Section 5–301, as amended by Section 1, Chapter 298, O.S.L. 2022 (29 O.S. Supp. 2023, Section 5–301), is amended to read as follows:
Section 5–301. A. No person may set or use at any time any poison, cyanide coyote getter, or other similar device, using cyanide gas or other poisonous gas as the lethal agent, for the purpose of killing predators, except in accordance with the following conditions and procedures:
1. Signs of a size and character and with wording to be determined by the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food, and Forestry indicating the presence of cyanide coyote getters or other similar device using cyanide gas or other poisonous gas as the lethal agent, shall be posted on all properties where the coyote getters are set to the right and left of all entrances from public roads and highways and from adjacent lands.
2. Such devices shall not be set from April 1 to September 30 of each calendar year; provided, that any devices set or used within a commercial hunting area by a person holding a big game or big game and upland game combination license pursuant to Section 4–106 of this title or a licensed farmed cervidae facility by a person holding a farmed cervidae facility license pursuant to the Oklahoma Farmed Cervidae Act may be set or used at any time of the year.
B. Predatory control conducted by the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food, and Forestry or the Department of Wildlife Conservation shall be exempt from the provisions of paragraphs 4, 5 and 6 3 and 4 of subsection A of this section.
C. The Director of the Department of Wildlife Conservation may issue depredation permits to landowners for control of any nuisance wildlife.
D. Any person convicted of violating the provisions of this section shall be punished by a fine not less than Fifty Dollars ($50.00), or by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than thirty (30) days, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 2024.
Approved April 22, 2024.
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