1 STATE OF OKLAHOMA
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2 1st Session of the 58th Legislature (2021)
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3 SENATE BILL 773 By: Murdock
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6 AS INTRODUCED
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7 An Act relating to nuisance wildlife; authorizing
7 certain persons to hunt or kill prairie dogs without
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8 controlling nuisance prairie dogs; providing for
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12 BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
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13 SECTION 1. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified
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14 in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 4-135.2 of Title 29, unless
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15 there is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
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16 A. Except during deer gun season, a private property landowner,
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17 lessee or their designated agent may control nuisance or damage by
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18 prairie dogs without a permit by hunting or killing such rodents
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19 during the day, and without limitation by statewide season
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20 regulations, bag limits or methods of taking to protect marketable
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21 agricultural crops, land or processed feed, seed or other materials
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22 used in the production of an agricultural commodity.
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23 B. Any person who has been convicted of, or pled guilty to, a
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24 violation of Section 5-203.1 or Section 5-411 of Title 29 of the
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 1 Oklahoma Statutes within the previous three (3) years shall not
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2 control nuisance or damage by prairie dogs at night.
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3 SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 2021.
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