An Act
ENROLLED HOUSE
BILL NO. 2214 By: McDugle, Burns and Wallace
of the House
and
Murdock, David, Leewright,
Stephens and Bergstrom of
the Senate
An Act relating to game and fish; amending 29 O.S.
2011, Section 5-301, which relates to predator
control devices; modifying limitation on devices to
certain time of year; and providing an effective
date.
SUBJECT: Game and fish
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1. AMENDATORY 29 O.S. 2011, Secti on 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 predator s, except in accordance with the
following conditions and procedures:
1. Signs of a size and character and with wording to be
determined by the State 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 said coyote
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roads and highways and from adjacent lands and at corners of
perimeter fences.
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 .
3. All signs as requ ired by this article shall be in place
twenty-four (24) hours before said devices are set and shall be
properly maintained in place during the permission period herein
provided.
4. A game warden may issue a permit for the setting of such
devices and such permit must be obtained prior to the setting of
such devices. Each permit shall be made in triplicate, the original
to be retained by the landowner concerned, one copy retained by the
game warden and the other copy mailed immediately to the Department
for its permanent record.
5. In applying for a permit, the landowner shall state the
number of devices to be set and the approximate location to the
nearest forty (40) acres.
6. Written permission permits required by this section shall
cover a period not exceeding six (6) months; provided, however, that
said permits shall be subject to renewal for a like period of time.
7. All signs required by this section shall be removed at the
end of the permission period, unless said permit is renewed prior to
the expiration date thereof.
8. No predator control devices shall be on any property without
the written permission of the record owner or lessee thereof.
B. Predatory control conducted by the State Oklahoma Department
of Agriculture, Food, and Forestry or the Oklahoma Department of
Wildlife Conservation shall be exempt from the provisions of
paragraphs 4, 5 and 6 of subsection A of this section.
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C. The Director of the Department of Wildlife Conservation may
issue depredation permits to landowners for con trol of any nuisance
wildlife.
D. Any person convicted of violating the provisions of this
section shall be punished by a fine of not less than Fifty Dollars
($50.00), or by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than
thirty (30) days, or by both s uch fine and imprisonment.
SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 2021.
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Passed the House of Representatives the 19th day of May, 2021.
Presiding Officer of the House
of Representatives
Passed the Senate the 24th day of May, 2021.
Presiding Officer of the Senate
OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
Received by the Office of the Governor this ____________________
day of ___________________, 20_______, at _______ o'clock _______ M.
By: _________________________________
Approved by the Governor of the State of Oklahoma this _________
day of ___________________, 20_______, at _______ o'clock _______ M.
_________________________________
Governor of the State of Oklahoma
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE
Received by the Office of the Secretary of State this __________
day of ___________________, 20_______, at _______ o'clock _______ M.
By: _________________________________