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1 STATE OF OKLAHOMA
2 2nd Session of the 60th Legislature (2026)
3 HOUSE BILL 4147 By: Hasenbeck
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6 AS INTRODUCED
7 An Act relating to game and fish; amending 29 O.S.
2021, Section 4-119, which relates to trapping
8 license; exempting certain individuals from license
requirements; allowing the snaring of coyotes and
9 feral hogs; providing for penalties for violations;
and providing an effective date.
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12 BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
13 SECTION 1. AMENDATORY 29 O.S. 2021, Section 4-119, is
14 amended to read as follows:
15 Section 4-119. A. No person may trap any furbearers without
16 having first procured a license from the Director. A furbearer
17 trapping license may be issued only to persons holding a hunting
18 license applicable to their residency.
19 B. Persons excepted from the license requirements of this
20 section are:
21 1. Persons holding a resident lifetime hunting license or
22 lifetime combination hunting and fishing license issued pursuant to
23 Section 4-114 of this title; and
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1 2. Resident owners or tenants, or the children of an owner or
2 tenant, who trap on land owned or leased by the owner owners or
3 tenants.
4 C. The fees for a license under this section shall be:
5 1. For residents:
6 a. Nine Dollars ($9.00) for the use of twenty traps or
7 less, and
8 b. Sixty-eight Dollars and fifty cents ($68.50) for a
9 professional trapper, who shall be defined as a person
10 using more than twenty traps; and
11 2. For nonresidents, Three Hundred Forty-five Dollars
12 ($345.00).
13 D. All licenses issued pursuant to this section shall expire on
14 the last day of February of each year.
15 E. Any person convicted of violating the provisions of
16 subparagraph a of paragraph 1 of subsection C of this section shall
17 be punished by a fine of not less than Twenty-five Dollars ($25.00)
18 nor more than One Hundred Dollars ($100.00).
19 F. Any person convicted of violating the provisions of
20 subparagraph b of paragraph 1 of subsection C of this section shall
21 be punished by the imposition of a fine of not less than One Hundred
22 Dollars ($100.00) nor more than Two Hundred Dollars ($200.00) or by
23 imprisonment in the county jail for a period not to exceed six (6)
24 months, or by both said fine and imprisonment.
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1 G. Any person convicted of violating the provisions of
2 paragraph 2 of subsection C of this section shall be punished by a
3 fine of not less than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) nor more than
4 One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) or by imprisonment in the county
5 jail for a period not to exceed one (1) year, or by both such fine
6 and imprisonment.
7 H. A license shall not be required under this section for
8 landowners or lessee of agricultural land to use snares to trap
9 coyotes and feral hogs upon their land year-round. There shall be
10 no limit on the number of coyotes or feral hogs snared pursuant to
11 this subsection. Any snare set pursuant to this subsection shall be
12 tended once during each twenty-four (24) hours.
13 Any person convicted of violating any of the provisions of this
14 subsection shall be punished by a fine of not less than Twenty-five
15 Dollars ($25.00) nor more than Two Hundred Dollars ($200.00).
16 SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 2026.
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