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Title 29 - GAME AND FISHChapter 1 - OKLAHOMA WILDLIFE CONSERVATION CODE
Article 4 - LICENSES
Section 4-119 - Trapping licenses

Okla. Stat. tit. 29 § 4-119

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Current through Laws 2024, c. 378.
Section 4-119 - Trapping licenses
A. No person may trap any furbearers without having first procured a license from the Director. A furbearer trapping license may be issued only to persons holding a hunting license applicable to their residency.
B. Persons excepted from the license requirements of this section are:
1. Persons holding a resident lifetime hunting license or lifetime combination hunting and fishing license issued pursuant to Section 4-114 of this title; and
2. Resident owners or tenants or the children of an owner or tenant, who trap on land owned or leased by the owner or tenants.
C. The fees for a license under this section shall be:
1. For residents:
a. Nine Dollars ($9.00) for the use of twenty traps or less, and
b. Sixty-eight Dollars and fifty cents ($68.50) for a professional trapper, defined as a person using more than twenty traps; and
2. For nonresidents, Three Hundred Forty-five Dollars ($345.00).
D. All licenses issued pursuant to this section shall expire on the last day of February of each year.
E. Any person convicted of violating the provisions of subparagraph a of paragraph 1 of subsection C of this section shall be punished by a fine of not less than Twenty-five Dollars ($25.00) nor more than One Hundred Dollars ($100.00).
F. Any person convicted of violating the provisions of subparagraph b of paragraph 1 of subsection C of this section shall be punished by the imposition of a fine of not less than One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) nor more than Two Hundred Dollars ($200.00) or by imprisonment in the county jail for a period not to exceed six (6) months, or by both said fine and imprisonment.
G. Any person convicted of violating the provisions of paragraph 2 of subsection C of this section shall be punished by a fine of not less than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) nor more than One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) or by imprisonment in the county jail for a period not to exceed one (1) year, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

Okla. Stat. tit. 29, § 4-119

Laws 1974, SB 144, c. 17, § 4-119, emerg. eff. 4/8/1974; Amended by Laws 1985, HB 1023, c. 91, § 10, eff. 1/1/1986; Amended by Laws 1991, HB 1619, c. 182, § 24, eff. 9/1/1991; Amended by Laws 2003 , HB 1663, c. 160, §5, emerg. eff. 7/1/2003; Amended by Laws 2010 , HB 2963, c. 317, §7, eff. 1/1/2011.