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STATE OF OKLAHOMA
1st Session of the 60th Legislature (2025)
SENATE BILL 448 By: Hamilton
AS INTRODUCED
An Act relating to wildlife; amending 29 O.S. 2021,
Section 7-304, as amended by Section 1, Chapter 19,
O.S.L. 2022 (29 O.S. Supp. 2024 , Section 7-304),
which relates to wildlife refuges and Wildlife
Management Areas; requiring nonresident hunters to
receive permission from the Oklahoma Wildlife
Conservation Commission to use certain areas;
authorizing the Commission to create certain sys tem
for permitting; providing for promulgation of rules;
updating statutory la nguage; and providing an
effective date.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1. AMENDATORY 29 O.S. 2021, Section 7 -304, as
amended by Section 1, Chapter 19, O.S.L. 2022 (29 O.S. Supp. 2024,
Section 7-304), is amended to read as follows:
Section 7-304. A. Except as otherwise provided by law, no
person may enter upon any state or federal wildlife refuge or
Wildlife Management Area with a dog, a gun, or a bow.
B. Exceptions to the above provisio ns are when the Oklahoma
Wildlife Conservation Commission and/or the Oklahoma Tourism and
Recreation Commission may by resolution permit:
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1. The holding of field trials by duly authorized sportsmen ’s
clubs; or
2. Such hunting, killing , or trapping of wildlife from such
refuge or Wildlife Management Area ; provided, however, that Lake
Murray State Park shall not be utilized for the killing or trapping
of natural wildlife and shall remain a wildlife preserve.
C. 1. Upon authorization for the hunting, killi ng, or trapping
of wildlife from any state or federal wildlife refuge or Wildlife
Management Area by either the Oklahoma Wildlife Conservation
Commission and/or the Oklahoma Tour ism and Recreation Commission
pursuant to subsection B of this section, the Oklahoma Wildlife
Conservation Commission shall require nonresident s to schedule with
the Department of Wildlife Conservation in order to receive written
authorization to use such refuge or Wildlife Management Area.
2. The Oklahoma Wildlife Conservation Com mission shall create a
lottery system as needed for the distribution of permits authorizing
nonresidents to hunt, kill, or trap wildlife from such refuge or
Wildlife Management Area.
3. The Oklahoma Wildlife Conservation Commission shall
promulgate any rules necessary to implement the provisions of this
section.
D. Any person convicted of violating the provisions of this
section shall be punished by a fine of not less than One Hundred
Dollars ($100.00) nor more than One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), or
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by imprisonment in the county jail for not less than ten (10) days
nor more than thirty (30) days, or by both such fine and
imprisonment for the first violation. A subsequent viol ation shall
result in the suspension of privileges to hunt, kill, or trap within
such refuge or Wildlife Management Area .
SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 2025.
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