THIS TEXT EFFECTIVE BEGINNING NOV. 1, 2020. FOR TEXT EFFECTIVE UNTIL NOV. 1, 2020, SEE OS 29-4-140v1.

A. Except as otherwise provided for in this section, no person may hunt, pursue, trap, harass, catch, kill, take, or attempt to take in any manner, use, have in possession, sell, or transport all or any portion of any wildlife including fish unless the person has first obtained an Oklahoma Wildlife Land Stamp from the Director or any authorized agents of the Department of Wildlife Conservation. Each person shall have the stamp in their possession when hunting, fishing, or taking any wildlife.

B. Persons exempt from the Oklahoma Wildlife Land Stamp requirements of this section are:

1. Legal residents of Oklahoma under eighteen (18) years of age;

2. Legal residents of Oklahoma sixty-five (65) years of age or older;

3. Legal residents of Oklahoma who have a valid lifetime fishing, hunting, or combination license;

4. Legal residents of Oklahoma who have a valid senior citizen lifetime fishing, hunting or combination hunting and fishing license;

5. Nonresidents holding a valid nonresident lifetime fishing license;

6. Legal residents and nonresidents who have acquired a license pursuant to Section 4-110 or Section 4-128 of this title for fishing in the area of Lake Texoma located within the state;

7. Nonresidents under sixteen (16) years of age from states which do not require nonresident fishing licenses for persons under sixteen (16) years of age;

8. Nonresidents sixty-four (64) years of age or older from states which do not require nonresident fishing licenses for persons sixty-four (64) years of age or older;

9. Legal resident veterans having a disability of sixty percent (60%) or more and registered with the veterans registry created by the Oklahoma Department of Veterans Affairs; provided, that if the veteran has previously received the exemption pursuant to this paragraph, no registration with the veterans registry shall be required;

10. Legal resident owners or tenants, their spouses, parents, grandparents, children and their spouses, grandchildren and their spouses who hunt on land owned or leased by them or fish in private ponds on land owned or leased by them;

11. Any legal resident or nonresident who is a patient of an institution of the State of Oklahoma established for the care and treatment of mental illness or alcohol or drug dependency or any developmentally disabled person residing in any group home or other institution or developmentally disabled persons when accompanied by an attendant of such institution or legal guardian of said patient, or when fishing on institutional property;

12. Any legal resident or nonresident who is legally blind or who has any other physical impairment, as certified by a physician licensed in this state or any state which borders this state, which prevents the person from properly using fishing apparatus without the assistance of another person, and any one person actually accompanying and actually assisting such legally blind or otherwise physically impaired person while the latter is fishing. This certification shall be carried by the individual while fishing;

13. Nonresidents under fourteen (14) years of age;

14. Any legal resident or nonresident who is a Job Corps trainee of this state, provided that the trainees shall have on their persons a duly authorized identification card issued by their respective Job Corps Center and shall present the card upon request, in lieu of a fishing license. The trainees shall return their cards to their respective Job Corps Center when the trainees leave their respective Job Corps training programs;

15. Any legal resident having a proven disability which renders the resident nonambulatory and confined to a wheelchair as certified by a physician licensed in this state or any state which borders this state;

16. Any legal resident or nonresident who is fishing with a pole and line, trotline, or throwline in streams, natural lakes, natural ponds, and mine pits when using any bait other than commercial or artificial bait, blood, stink bait, cut fish, and shrimp; and

17. Any legal resident or nonresident hunting, pursuing, trapping, harassing, catching, killing, taking, or attempting to take in any manner any species of rattlesnake during an organized rattlesnake hunting event or festival and who has a rattlesnake permit issued pursuant to Section 4-143 of this title.

C. 1. Any fees received for the Oklahoma Wildlife Land Stamp and required to be deposited in the Oklahoma Wildlife Land Fund, created in Section 4-141 of this title and any other money deposited in the fund, shall be used exclusively for:

a.the payment of bond debt and related expenses incurred pursuant to Section 168.9 of Title 73 of the Oklahoma Statutes for the purchase of public hunting, fishing, and trapping areas where the public may hunt, fish, or trap as authorized by law or for the purchase, lease, or purchasing of easements on real property to be used as public hunting, fishing, and trapping areas, and

b.the management of the real property acquired pursuant to Section 168.9 of Title 73 of the Oklahoma Statutes or acquired with proceeds from the Oklahoma Wildlife Land Stamp fee.

2. The collection and remittance procedures applicable to hunting license fees under this title shall apply to the Oklahoma Wildlife Land Stamp fees.

3. The Oklahoma Wildlife Land Stamp issued pursuant to this section for hunting licenses issued pursuant to paragraph 1 of subsection C and paragraphs 1 and 3 of subsection E of Section 4-112 of this title and paragraphs 1 and 3 of subsection B of Section 4-113 of this title, shall expire on December 31. The Oklahoma Wildlife Land Stamp issued pursuant to this section for hunting licenses issued pursuant to paragraph 2 of subsection C and paragraphs 2 and 4 of subsection E of Section 4-112 of this title and paragraphs 2 and 4 of subsection B of Section 4-113 of this title, shall expire on June 30.

D. The Oklahoma Wildlife Conservation Commission shall prescribe, by rule, the form, design, and manner of issuance of the Oklahoma Wildlife Land Stamp and any rules necessary to implement the provisions of this section.

Added by Laws 2004, c. 513, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 2004. Amended by Laws 2005, c. 304, § 2, emerg. eff. June 6, 2005; Laws 2007, c. 35, § 2, eff. Nov. 1, 2007; Laws 2009, c. 123, § 3, eff. July 1, 2009; Laws 2010, c. 317, § 11, eff. Jan. 1, 2011; Laws 2017, c. 229, § 5, eff. Nov. 1, 2020.