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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES - FLOOR VERSION
STATE OF OKLAHOMA
1st Session of the 59th Legislature (2023)
ENGROSSED SENATE
BILL NO. 978 By: Green of the Senate
and
Wallace of the House
An Act relating to firearms; amending 63 O .S. 2021,
Section 4210.3, which relates to transporting or
discharging a weapon from a vessel; removing certain
unlawful transport; modifying fines; deleting
licensed authorization of legal transport; and
providing an effecti ve date.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE ST ATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1. AMENDATORY 63 O.S. 2021, Section 4 210.3, is
amended to read as follows:
Section 4210.3. It shall be unlawful to transport a shotgun,
rifle or pistol in or to discharge such weapons a firearm from a
vessel, except for the purposes of self-defense, hunting animals or
fowl, and in compliance with existing state and federal laws.
Anyone violating the provisions of this section, upon conviction,
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished by a fi ne of
not less than Fifty Dollars ($50.00) and not more than One Hundred
Dollars ($100.00), or by imprisonment in the county jail for not
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less than ten (10) days and not more than six (6) three (3) months,
or by both such fine and imprisonment. Any person in possession of
a valid handgun license from this stat e or a reciprocal state
authorized by the Oklahoma Self-Defense Act shall not be dee med
guilty of transporting a pistol in violation of this section when a
handgun is carried concealed or unconcealed upon or about their
person in compliance with the provis ions of the Oklahoma Self-
Defense Act.
SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 2023.
COMMITTEE REPORT BY: COMMITTEE ON CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND CORRECTIONS,
dated 04/05/2023 - DO PASS.