Oklahoma § 29-4-119 Trapping licenses.

Oklahoma Statutes

§ 29-4-119 — Trapping licenses.

Oklahoma § 29-4-119

Title 29Game And Fish

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Bluebook

Okla. Stat. tit. 29, § 29-4-119 (2026).

Text

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 pers

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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.

Legislative History

Added by Laws 1974, c. 17, § 4-119, emerg. eff. April 8, 1974. Amended by Laws 1985, c. 91, § 10, eff. Jan. 1, 1986; Laws 1991, c. 182, § 24, eff. Sept. 1, 1991; Laws 2003, c. 160, § 5, eff. July 1, 2003; Laws 2010, c. 317, § 7, eff. Jan. 1, 2011.