2015 Oklahoma Statutes
Title 29. Game and Fish
§29-5-405. Furbearers.

A. Except as otherwise provided, no person may hunt, kill, capture or otherwise take or destroy any furbearer, except from the first day of December to the last day of February, both dates inclusive.

B. Any person who takes a pelt or pelts during the season shall have ten (10) working days after the close of the season to sell or dispose of the pelts or to provide written notification to the Department of Wildlife Conservation that the person intends to hold the pelts for later sale. Written notification shall be made on a form prescribed by the Department.

C. Nothing contained in these provisions shall prevent the killing of furbearers actually found destroying livestock, poultry or exotic livestock, nor the running or chasing of fox, bobcat and raccoon with dogs for sport only. For purposes of this section, the term "exotic livestock" means commercially raised exotic livestock including animals of the families bovidae, cervidae and antilocapridae or birds of the ratite group.

Added by Laws 1974, c. 17, § 5-405, emerg. eff. April 8, 1974. Amended by Laws 1977, c. 171, § 3, eff. Oct. 1, 1977; Laws 1993, c. 36, § 7, eff. July 1, 1993; Laws 1996, c. 135, § 2, eff. July 1, 1996; Laws 2006, c. 131, § 2, eff. July 1, 2006; Laws 2009, c. 110, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2009.