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STATE OF OKLAHOMA
2nd Session of the 59th Legislature (2024)
SENATE BILL 1312 By: Bullard
AS INTRODUCED
An Act relating to wildlife; authorizing the
Department of Wildlife Conservation to implement
certain program; requiring collaboration from other
Oklahoma entities; providing for indemnity of the
Department from damages resulting from implementation
of this program; exempting indemnity from certain
issues; providing for the promulgation of rules;
allowing the Department to provide ex emptions from
certain permitting; providing for codification; and
providing an effective date.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1. NEW LAW A n ew section of law to be codified
in the Oklahoma Statu tes as Section 7-707 of Title 29, unless there
is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
A. The Department of Wildlife Conservation shall administer
directly and through collaboration with the Oklahoma Department of
Agriculture, Food, and Forestry, the Oklahoma Conservation
Commission, and the Oklahoma Cooperative Extension Service at
Oklahoma State University to implement a program or programs for the
distribution of traps for the capture or deterrence of invasive and
nuisance species affecting Oklahoma landowners or land lessors.
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B. The Department or any employee or agent of the Department
shall not be liable for damages in any civil suit or subject to
criminal prosecution for any injury re sulting from the program,
unless the injury or dea th is a direct result of the gross
negligence, recklessness, or intentional mis conduct of the
Department or employee or agent of the Department.
C. The Department of Wildlife Conservation shall promulgate the
rules necessary for the implementation of this program along with
any educational material necessary for the proper o peration of the
traps leased to landowners and land le ssors through this program as
not to violate the provisions of subsec tion B of this section. The
Department may allow exemptions for landowners and land lessors
participating in this program from the permits required to control
nuisance and invasive species set for in Title 29 of the Oklahoma
Statutes.
SECTION 2. This act shall beco me effective November 1, 2024.
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