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STATE OF OKLAHOMA
1st Session of the 58th Legislature (2021)
HOUSE BILL 2721 By: Blancett
AS INTRODUCED
An Act relating to game and fish; amending 29 O.S.
2011, Section 7-205, as amended by Section 2, Chapter
286, O.S.L. 2013 (29 O.S. Supp . 2020, Section 7-205),
which relates to destroying wildlife; prohibiting
waste of edible meat of wildlife; imposing fine for
violations; defining term; and providing an effective
date.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1. AMENDATORY 29 O.S. 2011, Section 7 -205, as
amended by Section 2, Chapter 286, O.S.L. 2013 (29 O.S. Supp. 2020,
Section 7-205), is amended to read as follows:
Section 7-205. A. Excluding furbearers and coyotes, no person
may capture, kill, mutilate or destroy any wildlife protected by law
this title or administrative rule of the Wildlife Conservation
Commission and remove the head, claws, teeth, hide, antlers, horns
or any or all of such parts from the body with the inten t to abandon
the body.
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B. Excluding furbearers and coyotes, no person may capture or
mutilate any living wildlife protected by law this title or
administrative rule of the Wildlife Conservation Commission by
removing the claws, teeth, hide, antlers, horns or any or all of
such parts from the body.
C. No person may kill any wildlife protected by law this title
or administrative rule of the Wildlife Conservation Commission and
abandon the body without disposing of the body in the most
appropriate manner.
D. Any person convicted of violating the provisions 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 not more than one (1) y ear,
or by both fine and imprisonment.
E. Any hunting or fishing license issued to a person by the
Department of Wildlife Conservation shall be automatically revoked
upon conviction of the person of violating the provisions of this
section. The revocatio n shall be for a period set by the court of
not less than one (1) year nor more than ten (10) years. If the
court does not set a period, the revocation shall be for one (1)
year from the date of the conviction. During this period of
revocation, the Depar tment shall not issue the person a hunting or
fishing license. If the court does not set a revocation period, the
Department shall not issue that person a license within one (1) year
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of the conviction of the person pursuant to this section. A person
who has a license or permit revoked pursuant to this section shall
surrender the revoked license or permit to the court. The court
shall send the Department of Wildlife Conservation the revoked
license and a copy of the judgment of conviction. For purposes o f
this section, "conviction" shall include a plea of guilty or nolo
contendere to an offense or the imposition of deferred adjudication
for an offense.
F. A person taking any wildlife protected by this title or
administrative rule of the Wildlife Conserva tion Commission shall
not purposely, knowingly, recklessly, or with gross negligence waste
or fail to use the edible meat of the wildlife. Any person
violating the provisions of this section shall be fined One Thousand
Dollars ($1,000.00). As used in this subsection, "edible meat"
shall mean the flesh of wildlife used as food .
SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 2021.
58-1-6378 AMM 01/10/20